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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
2009-11-04 * Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra2-2/+30
2009-09-25 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra3-3/+5
2009-09-18 * Use xmllint (>= 2.7.4) for RelaxNG validation instead of Jing.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+2
2009-07-14 * Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries.Eelco Dolstra16-68/+44
2009-07-10 * Leave out the collaborators / revision history page.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+5
2009-07-10 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-06-30 * Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).Eelco Dolstra2-0/+9
NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and generally aren't very useful. Ideally the builtins.throw messages should be self-contained.
2009-06-13 * Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00). 1 is a better choice because some programs use 0 as a special value. For instance, the Template Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file, so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs). Similarly, Maya 2008 fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be patched because it's closed source. This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar warnings.
2009-05-26 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+27
2009-05-07 * Don't have a bugs section in the manual. Bugs should be kept in theEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
bug tracker.
2009-04-14 * Remove references to __XXX primops.Eelco Dolstra2-14/+4
2009-04-14 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+60
2009-03-28 * Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use fileEelco Dolstra1-37/+14
descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2009-02-05 documentation for previous commitMarc Weber1-0/+30
2008-11-29 * Install the release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+4
2008-11-20 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2008-11-19 * Patterns.Eelco Dolstra1-31/+73
2008-11-19 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra2-1/+62
2008-11-19 * Updated the manual.Eelco Dolstra2-3/+134
2008-11-19 * Documented some of the sharing mechanisms. Eelco Dolstra7-5/+144
2008-11-19 * Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix).Eelco Dolstra1-6/+6
2008-11-19 * Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of theEelco Dolstra4-143/+17
troubleshooting section. W00t.
2008-11-19 * Release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-18/+138
2008-11-18 * Get rid of nix-pack-closure / nix-unpack-closure, they're redundant.Eelco Dolstra5-133/+7
2008-08-05 * Moved some stuff to the Nixpkgs manual.Eelco Dolstra2-162/+22
* Updated the release notes.
2008-07-11 * Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,Eelco Dolstra1-2/+7
which is hopefully more useful. * New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-01 * Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparisonEelco Dolstra1-0/+6
logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops. This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency is a specific needed version or falls in some version range. See tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.
2008-06-11 * Updated some URLs.Eelco Dolstra4-17/+19
2008-06-09 * Updated some URLs (did this a long time ago but forgot toEelco Dolstra4-34/+30
commit...).
2008-01-29 * nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+13
* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of each path. * Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2007-12-31 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-4/+5
2007-12-31 * More documentation.Eelco Dolstra5-21/+212
2007-12-31 * Documented a bunch of nix-store commands.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+174
2007-12-31 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-89/+89
2007-12-31 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-9/+8
2007-12-31 * More release notes.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+44
2007-12-30 * Documented indented string literals.Eelco Dolstra3-43/+193
* Release notes.
2007-12-04 * component -> package.Eelco Dolstra8-98/+97
2007-11-30 * Added a new kind of multi-line string literal delimited by twoEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
single quotes. Example (from NixOS): job = '' start on network-interfaces start script rm -f /var/run/opengl-driver ${if videoDriver == "nvidia" then "ln -sf ${nvidiaDrivers} /var/run/opengl-driver" else if cfg.driSupport then "ln -sf ${mesa} /var/run/opengl-driver" else "" } rm -f /var/log/slim.log end script ''; This style has two big advantages: - \, ' and " aren't special, only '' and ${. So you get a lot less escaping in shell scripts / configuration files in Nixpkgs/NixOS. The delimiter '' is rare in scripts (and can usually be written as ""). ${ is also fairly rare. Other delimiters such as <<...>>, {{...}} and <|...|> were also considered but this one appears to have the fewest drawbacks (thanks Martin). - Indentation is intelligently stripped so that multi-line strings can follow the nesting structure of the containing Nix expression. E.g. in the example above 6 spaces are stripped from the start of each line. This prevents unnecessary indentation in generated files (which sometimes even breaks things). See tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix for some examples.
2007-11-29 * Troubleshooting entry about running out of locks.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+43
2007-11-21 * New primop `readFile' to get the contents of a file as a string.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+9
2007-11-01 * A rule to make a PDF version of the manual.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+8
2007-11-01 * Documented some of the more obscure derivation attributes (includingEelco Dolstra3-14/+250
fixed-output derivations).
2007-10-31 * Documented multi-user Nix.Eelco Dolstra4-46/+271
2007-10-29 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra3-0/+132
2007-10-29 * Make the `--prebuilt-only' / `-b' option work not just for queriesEelco Dolstra1-1/+2
but installations/upgrades as well. So `nix-env -ub \*' will upgrade only those packages for which a substitute is available (or to be precise, it will upgrade each package to the highest version for which a substitute is available).
2007-10-27 * Delete the chroot directory automatically.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
* Removed some debug messages.