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2003-12-05	* Refactoring: put the manifest-reading code in a separate file.	Eelco Dolstra	3	-89/+113

2003-12-04	* Fix for too long command lines when calling `nix-store	Martin Bravenboer	1	-4/+16
	--register-[substitutes\|successors].
2003-12-01	* Bug fix in nix-push.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-19/+19

2003-12-01	* Help text for all (non-script) programs, so no more:	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	$ nix-instantiate --help error: unknown flag `--help` Try `nix-instantiate --help' for more information. :-)
2003-12-01	* Use a system name that does not include the OS manufacturer (i.e.,	Eelco Dolstra	3	-4/+4
	"i686-linux" instead of "i686-suse-linux").
2003-11-24	* One-click installation :-)	Eelco Dolstra	3	-73/+123
	The script nix-install-package takes a `Nix package file' (which contains one or more derivations, along with URLs of Nix caches), unpacks it, pulls the caches, and installs the derivations in the user's environment. For best results, associate the command `xterm -e /nix/bin/nix-install-package' with the MIME type `application/x-nix-package' and visit http://losser.st-lab.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/test/.
2003-11-24	* Fix nix-pull.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-21/+15

2003-11-24	* Get rid of tab characters.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-62/+62

2003-11-22	* Fix nix-push.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-36/+32

2003-11-22	* Maintain integrity of the substitute and successor mappings when	Eelco Dolstra	3	-100/+16
	deleting a path in the store. * Allow absolute paths in Nix expressions. * Get nix-prefetch-url to work again. * Various other fixes.
2003-11-22	* Fix the garbage collector.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+18

2003-10-27	* Don't cache the manifest.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2003-10-20	* NarPath -> NarName.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2003-10-16	* Remove some debug output.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+1

2003-10-16	* Substitutes and nix-pull now work again.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-60/+91
	* Fixed a segfault caused by the buffering of stderr. * Fix now allows the specification of the full output path. This should be used with great care, since it by-passes the normal hash generation. * Incremented the version number to 0.4 (prerelease).
2003-10-16	* Get nix-push to work again.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-32/+78
	* Fixed svn:ignore on externals/.
2003-10-15	* Keep sources (derivation expression) by default, `--no-source' to	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2
	override.
2003-10-09	* Follow successors by default (use `--no-successors' to override).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2003-10-09	* Fixed nix-switch.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2003-10-07	* Synchronise terminology with the ICSE paper (e.g., slice -> closure,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2
	fstate -> Nix expression). * Fix src/test.cc.
2003-10-02	* Use passive FTP in wget.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2003-08-28	* nix-push generated invalid (old-style) slices.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	* nar.sh needs a path.
2003-08-25	* Don't continue when the call to nix fails.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+11

2003-08-15	* A script `nix-prefetch-url' to fetch a URL, place it in the Nix	Eelco Dolstra	3	-4/+54
	store, and print its hash.
2003-08-15	* Don't use a temporary file.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-9/+14

2003-08-06	* Allow a name to be given to a system configuration through `--name	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+7
	NAME'. E.g., on the losser Subversion server, I do `nix-switch --name svn $(fix ...)' to atomically upgrade the server (the SVN server uses the Apache and Subversion installations in /nix/var/nix/links/svn).
2003-08-05	* Made nix-push much faster.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-18/+33

2003-08-05	* Made nix-pull much faster by performing all Fix instantiations at	Eelco Dolstra	1	-14/+32
	the same time.
2003-07-29	* Bug: Fix does not allow empty names, so don't generate them.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-10/+10

2003-07-29	* Use `--query --requisites' and include successors when pushing. Don't	Eelco Dolstra	1	-8/+8
	use `--query --generators' anymore.
2003-07-29	* Typo: if -> elsif.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2003-07-29	* Get garbage collection and cache population to work properly.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-18/+50
	Renamed `fstateRefs' to `fstateRequisites'. The semantics of this function is that it returns a list of all paths necessary to realise a given expression. For a derive expression, this is the union of requisites of the inputs; for a slice expression, it is the path of each element in the slice. Also included are the paths of the expressions themselves. Optionally, one can also include the requisites of successor expressions (to recycle intermediate results). * `nix-switch' now distinguishes between an expression and its normal form. Usually, only the normal form is registered as a root of the garbage collector. With the `--source-root' flag, it will also register the original expression as a root. * `nix-collect-garbage' now has a flag `--keep-successors' which causes successors not to be included in the list of garbage paths. * `nix-collect-garbage' now has a flag `--invert' which will print all paths that should not be garbage collected.
2003-07-28	* Do not set LD_LIBRARY_PATH; it breaks many things. E.g., SuSE's ssh	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	dynamically links against libdb4 (?!), due to LD_LIBRARY_PATH it picks up our libdb4 instead of SuSE's libdb4, but our libdb4 uses another glibc so loading barfs. Instead, all packages should use rpaths to store library locations in executables/libraries. The disadvantage is that overriding rpaths is harder. (It is possible by invoking the dynamic linker directly, e.g., `/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --ignore-path LIST program args...' to ignore the rpath for the libraries in LIST). It would be better to use DT_RUNPATH, which is consulted by the dynamic linker after LD_LIBRARY_PATH but before ld.so.cache and the system directories.
2003-07-23	* Incorporated Berkeley DB and ATerm into the source tree.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+5
	* `make dist'.
2003-07-22	* Substitutes now should produce a path with the same id as they are	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+13
	substituting for (obvious, really). * For greater efficiency, nix-pull/unnar will place the output in a path that is probably the same as what is actually needed, thus preventing a path copy. * Even if a output id is given in a Fix package expression, ensure that the resulting Nix derive expression has a different id. This is because Nix expressions that are semantically equivalent (i.e., build the same result) might be different w.r.t. efficiency or divergence. It is absolutely vital for the substitute mechanism that such expressions are not used interchangeably.
2003-07-21	* Changed nix-pull to match nix-push.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-15/+16

2003-07-21	* Syntax fixes.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-14/+24
	* When pushing, put the hash in the file name so that the client can verify (proof-carrying file names?).
2003-07-20	* Argh, another short-write problem. Added wrappers around	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+3
	read()/write() to fix this once and for all.
2003-07-18	* Generate nar.sh, fetchurl.sh.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-7/+1

2003-07-16	* The write() system call can write less than the requested	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+4
	number of bytes, e.g., in case of a signal like SIGSTOP. This caused `nix --dump' to fail sometimes. Note that this bug went unnoticed because the call to `nix --dump' is in a pipeline, and the shell ignores non-zero exit codes from all but the last element in the pipeline. Is there any way to check the result of the initial elements in the pipeline? (In other words, is it at all possible to write reliable shell scripts?)
2003-07-16	* Substitute fixes.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-15/+12

2003-07-14	* Get the garbage collector to work again.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-22/+25

2003-07-13	* Generate the scripts so that we can substitute the prefix	Eelco Dolstra	5	-21/+23
	etc. correctly. * Fixed nix-switch.
2003-07-10	* Compress Nix archives when pushing them.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+5

2003-07-10	* Working derivate sharing.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-4/+23

2003-07-10	* Convert tabs to spaces.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-70/+70

2003-07-10	* Performance enhancement.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+8

2003-07-10	* The policy-free derivate sharing now almost works. :-) For any	Eelco Dolstra	5	-133/+69
	hash for which no local expansion is available, Nix can execute a `substitute' which should produce a path with such a hash. This is policy-free since Nix does not in any way specify how the substitute should work, i.e., it's an arbitrary (unnormalised) fstate expression. For example, `nix-pull' registers substitutes that fetch Nix archives from the network (through `wget') and unpack them, but any other method is possible as well. This is an improvement over the old Nix sharing scheme, which had a policy (fetching through `wget') built in. The sharing scheme doesn't work completely yet because successors from fstate rewriting have to be registered on the receiving side. Probably the whole successor stuff can be folded up into the substitute mechanism; this would be a nice simplification.
2003-07-10	* Get `nix-push' working again. It now uses Nix/Fix to create Nix	Eelco Dolstra	3	-1/+63
	archives (using the package in corepkgs/nar). * queryPathByHash -> expandHash, and it takes an argument specifying the target path (which may be empty). * Install the core Fix packages in $prefix/share/fix. TODO: bootstrap Nix and install Nix as a Fix package.
2003-06-18	* Set CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH as well as C_INCLUDE_PATH. Otherwise g++	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1
	won't see header files under Nix control.