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2012-03-26 Remove the --max-links GC optionEelco Dolstra1-11/+0
We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more than 32,000 files in a directory.
2012-03-18 Drop the externals directoryEelco Dolstra1-17/+30
Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed. SQLite is detected using pkg-config. We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so depending on SQLite is not a big problem. The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2012-01-17 * Added a command ‘nix-store --print-env $drvpath’ that prints out theEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
environment of the given derivation in a format that can be sourced by the shell, e.g. $ eval "$(nix-store --print-env $(nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixpkgs -A pkg))" $ NIX_BUILD_TOP=/tmp $ source $stdenv/setup This is especially useful to reproduce the environment used to build a package outside of its builder for development purposes. TODO: add a nix-build option to do the above and fetch the dependencies of the derivation as well.
2012-01-13 * nix-build: put the temporary derivation symlink in a temporaryEelco Dolstra2-24/+16
directory rather than the current directory. * nix-build: --drv-link now implies --add-drv-link.
2011-12-30 * Follow our own coding conventions.Eelco Dolstra3-65/+61
2011-12-30 * Remove a redundant dot (Nicolas Pierron).Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-12-30 * Fix doc error.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-12-01 doc/manual/nix-env.xml: fixed "nix-env -qaA" typoPeter Simons1-1/+1
2011-12-01 doc/manual/nix-env.xml: stripped trailing whitespacePeter Simons1-100/+100
2011-11-23 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-11-23 * Document the --include-outputs option.Eelco Dolstra1-9/+18
2011-11-23 * Add bzip2 and xz support to nix-copy-closure.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+8
2011-11-03 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-11-03 * The Nix configuration file is usually /etc/nix/nix.conf.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2011-11-02 * Fix permission on /nix/store in the manual for multi-user installsEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
(reported by Silvio Frischknecht).
2011-09-06 * Added a command ‘nix-store --verify-paths PATHS’ to check whetherEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
the contents of any of the given store paths have been modified. E.g. $ nix-store --verify-path $(nix-store -qR /var/run/current-system) path `/nix/store/m2smyiwbxidlprfxfz4rjlvz2c3mg58y-etc' was modified! expected hash `fc87e271c5fdf179b47939b08ad13440493805584b35e3014109d04d8436e7b8', got `20f1a47281b3c0cbe299ce47ad5ca7340b20ab34246426915fce0ee9116483aa' All paths are checked; the exit code is 1 if any path has been modified, 0 otherwise.
2011-08-06 * Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angleEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
brackets, e.g. import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib> are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in the search path. This allows us to get rid of hacks like import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib" The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable, e.g., $ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ... If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is lazily thrown.
2011-07-13 * Allow a default value in attribute selection by writingEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
x.y.z or default (as originally proposed in https://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-September/002989.html). For instance, an expression like stdenv.lib.attrByPath ["features" "ckSched"] false args can now be written as args.features.ckSched or false
2011-06-30 doc: Fix typo.Ludovic Courtès1-0/+2
2011-06-30 Add support for the `build-timeout' and `--timeout' options.Ludovic Courtès4-0/+41
2011-03-15 * Fix a bug in the documentation (reported by Olexiy Buyanskyy,Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Nix/215).
2010-11-17 * Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+16
2010-11-16 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra4-1/+40
2010-10-29 * Document Boehm GC support.Eelco Dolstra3-0/+39
2010-10-06 nix manual: fix 'install' -> 'uninstall' in garbage collection section of ↵Rob Vermaas1-1/+1
introduction
2010-08-24 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra6-3/+98
2010-08-17 * Update date.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2010-08-17 * Document --cores in the manual.Eelco Dolstra4-4/+45
2010-08-16 * Typo.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-08-16 * Nix 0.16 release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+53
2010-05-12 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra2-9/+7
2010-05-07 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-05-02 * Don't use smart quotes where normal ASCII quotes are intended.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
Actually, don't use quotes at all. (Reported by Howard B. Golden.)
2010-04-25 Fixing a typo in the nix-store manual, that could confuse a bit too much ↵Lluís Batlle i Rossell1-1/+1
(--delete/--gc)
2010-04-20 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra2-1/+13
2010-04-19 * Drop the dependency on the ATerm library.Eelco Dolstra1-8/+6
2010-03-17 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-03-16 * Release notes for Nix 0.15.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+12
2010-03-16 * Fix a broken link (reported by Peter Koppstein).Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-02-24 * Disable fsync() in SQLite if the fsync-metadata option is set toEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
false. * Change the default for `fsync-metadata' to true. * Disable `fsync-metadata' in `make check'.
2010-02-12 * Typo. Reported by Peter Koppstein.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-02-05 * Fix a broken link (reported by Bjorn Buckwalter).Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-02-04 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-02-03 * Updated the release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+5
2010-01-29 * Added an option "fsync-metadata" to fsync() changes toEelco Dolstra1-1/+11
/nix/var/nix/db. * Removed the function writeStringToFile since it does (almost) the same thing as writeFile.
2009-12-09 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+40
2009-11-23 * A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbageEelco Dolstra1-1/+22
collector roots that point (directly or indirectly) to the given paths.
2009-11-20 * Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. ManyEelco Dolstra1-45/+0
(Linux) machines no longer maintain the atime because it's too expensive, and on the machines where --use-atime is useful (like the buildfarm), reading the atimes on the entire Nix store takes way too much time to make it practical.
2009-11-06 * Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases.Eelco Dolstra1-7/+0
2009-11-05 * Various updates.Eelco Dolstra6-142/+62