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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
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