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2012-09-27 Allow dashes in identifiersEelco Dolstra1-0/+5
In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a package is usually equal to the package name. However, this doesn't work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common. The convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib" becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying. So now dashes are valid in variable / attribute names, allowing you to write: dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { }; and buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ]; Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this is unambiguous.
2012-09-25 Add "on Linux" qualifierEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2012-09-25 Document that Nix requires GNU MakeEelco Dolstra1-1/+4
Fixes #44.
2012-09-25 Update release notesEelco Dolstra1-0/+29
2012-09-13 nix-collect-garbage: Support --dry-runEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2012-09-13 nix-env --delete-generations: Support --dry-run flagEelco Dolstra1-1/+2
Fixes #43.
2012-09-13 nix-channel: Add option to force fetching of manifestsEelco Dolstra1-0/+12
2012-08-29 Document importing from a directory in the import documentationShea Levy1-2/+4
2012-08-27 Disable the binary cache substituter by default for nowEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2012-08-01 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifestsEelco Dolstra3-16/+16
2012-08-01 nix-channel: Use binary caches advertised by channelsEelco Dolstra1-0/+12
Channels can now advertise a binary cache by creating a file <channel-url>/binary-cache-url. The channel unpacker puts these in its "binary-caches" subdirectory. Thus, the URLS of the binary caches for the channels added by root appear in /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/eelco/channels/binary-caches/*. The binary cache substituter reads these and adds them to the list of binary caches.
2012-07-31 Allow daemon users to override ‘binary-caches’Eelco Dolstra1-0/+13
For security reasons, daemon users can only specify caches that appear in the ‘binary-caches’ and ‘trusted-binary-caches’ options in nix.conf.
2012-07-31 Add an option ‘build-fallback’ (equivalent to the --fallback flag)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+10
2012-07-30 Manual: Remove reference to non-existent -I optionEelco Dolstra1-15/+0
2012-07-30 Get rid of $NIX_BINARY_CACHESEelco Dolstra1-2/+4
You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-29 Document the --option flagEelco Dolstra2-1/+16
Pointed out by Daniel Santa Cruz on IRC.
2012-07-26 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifestsEelco Dolstra2-2/+15
2012-07-23 Automatically optimise the Nix store when a new path is addedEelco Dolstra1-1/+14
Auto-optimisation is enabled by default. It can be turned off by setting auto-optimise-store to false in nix.conf.
2012-07-18 Set release dateEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-07-18 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifestsEelco Dolstra3-11/+80
2012-07-17 Manual: Don't claim we support CygwinEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-07-17 Update Nix 1.1 release notesEelco Dolstra1-8/+67
2012-07-17 Allow disabling log compressionEelco Dolstra1-0/+10
2012-07-11 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:NixOS/nix into no-manifestsEelco Dolstra3-12/+28
2012-07-11 Update release notesEelco Dolstra1-0/+5
2012-07-09 Install a nix.conf manpageEelco Dolstra3-12/+28
2012-07-09 download-from-binary-cache: add nix.conf optionsEelco Dolstra1-0/+20
2012-06-23 Update release notesEelco Dolstra1-1/+15
2012-05-29 Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logsEelco Dolstra2-0/+32
Fixes #26.
2012-05-24 Clean up the installation section; document the generic binary tarballsEelco Dolstra1-96/+148
2012-05-11 Set release dateEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-05-11 Manual updatesEelco Dolstra6-75/+132
2012-05-11 CSS tweaksEelco Dolstra1-69/+32
2012-05-10 Document "nix-build --run-env"Eelco Dolstra1-1/+50
2012-05-10 Document "nix-store --add"Eelco Dolstra1-0/+34
2012-05-09 Document some nix-store subcommandsEelco Dolstra3-1/+170
2012-05-09 Document $NIX_PATH / -IEelco Dolstra3-13/+66
2012-05-09 Update the release notesEelco Dolstra1-12/+82
2012-05-07 nix-channel --update: allow updating only the specified channelsEelco Dolstra1-7/+8
2012-04-30 * Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’Eelco Dolstra1-0/+9
to disable use of substitutes; i.e., force building from source. Fixes Nix/221.
2012-04-30 Support mandatory system features in the build hookEelco Dolstra1-3/+14
Mandatory features are features that MUST be present in a derivation's requiredSystemFeatures attribute. One application is performance testing, where we have a dedicated machine to run performance tests (and nothing else). Then we would add the label "perf" to the machine's mandatory features and to the performance testing derivations.
2012-04-30 Update the documentation of build-remote.plEelco Dolstra3-96/+62
2012-04-17 nix-instantiate: default to "default.nix" if no arguments are givenEelco Dolstra1-2/+3
2012-04-17 Added utility command ‘nix-instantiate --find-file’ to look up a file in ↵Eelco Dolstra1-0/+14
Nix's search path
2012-04-14 nix-channel improvementsEelco Dolstra2-17/+36
"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name. This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable. If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL (with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed). Also, channels are now stored in a profile (/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels). One advantage of this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives an undesirable update).
2012-04-13 Add the '--show-progress' flag to nix-copy-closureShea Levy1-0/+8
2012-04-08 Nix is on github nowShea Levy1-4/+4
2012-04-06 Fix building from the tarballEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2012-04-06 Documentation fixEelco Dolstra1-5/+3
2012-04-06 Include environment variables in the manpagesEelco Dolstra5-2/+37