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2010-02-03	* Revert r19797, and use a simpler solution: just don't monitor build	Eelco Dolstra	1	-13/+0
	hooks for silence. It's unnecessary because the remote nix-store command is already monitoring the real build.
2010-02-03	* While waiting for a lock, print a sign of life every 5 minutes.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+13
	This prevents remote builders from being killed by the `max-silent-time' inactivity monitor while they are waiting for a long garbage collection to finish. This happens fairly often in the Hydra build farm.
2010-01-12	* On startup, set the default SIGCHLD handler. This is so that Nix	Eelco Dolstra	1	-5/+11
	works correctly in weird environments where the SIGCHLD handler is set to "ignore".
2009-11-24	* Templatise getIntArg / string2Int.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-19/+15

2009-06-30	* Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+8
	NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and generally aren't very useful. Ideally the builtins.throw messages should be self-contained.
2009-03-05	* Install some headers in the right location.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+5

2009-02-27	* Allow options from the Nix config file to be overriden from the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+7
	command line (e.g. "--option build-use-chroot true").
2008-12-11	* Revert r13150: now that we use private namespaces for the chroot, we	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+0
	don't have to put the chroot in /nix/var/nix/chroots anymore. They're back in /tmp now.
2008-11-12	* Some somewhat ad hoc mechanism to allow the build farm to monitor	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	build progress.
2008-10-29	* Put the chroots under /nix/var/nix/chroots to reduce the risk of	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1
	disasters involving `rm -rf' on bind mounts. Will try the definitive fix (per-process mounts, apparently possible via the CLONE_NEWNS flag in clone()) some other time.
2008-08-04	* `nix-store --realise': print what paths will be built/downloaded,	Eelco Dolstra	2	-0/+31
	just like nix-env. * `nix-store --realise': --dry-run option.
2008-08-04	* querySubstitutablePathInfo: work properly when run via the daemon.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	* --dry-run: print the paths that we don't know how to build/substitute.
2008-07-18	* Use the copy-from-other-stores substituter by default. Of course,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+4
	it only does something if $NIX_OTHER_STORES (not really a good name...) is set. * Do globbing on the elements of $NIX_OTHER_STORES. E.g. you could set it to /mnts//nix or something. Install substituters in libexec/nix/substituters.
2008-06-18	* --max-freed: support values >= 4 GB.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-3/+3

2008-06-18	* Garbage collector: option `--max-freed' to stop after at least N	Eelco Dolstra	2	-1/+4
	bytes have been freed, `--max-links' to stop when the Nix store directory has fewer than N hard links (the latter being important for very large Nix stores on filesystems with a 32000 subdirectories limit).
2008-06-14	* nix-worker: clean up the temporary root for the worker processes	Eelco Dolstra	2	-9/+11
	in /nix/var/nix/temproots.
2007-11-16	* Flag `--no-build-hook' to disable distributed builds.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	* queryDeriver in daemon mode: don't barf if the other side returns an empty string (which means there is no deriver).
2007-08-12	* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+7
	need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly. This means that it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster (NIX-95). Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with each other. The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external program to get the substitutes info. For instance, "nix-env -qas" takes a bit longer. Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid paths. On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR" on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway). * Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-05-01	* Set a terminate() handler to ensure that we leave the BDB	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+24
	environment cleanly even when an exception is thrown from a destructor. We still crash, but we don't take all other Nix processes with us.
2007-03-30	* Work around a bug in Apple's GCC preprocessor.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2007-01-14	* Option --argstr for passing string arguments easily. (NIX-75)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-01-13	* Removed chroot support.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-6/+0

2006-12-08	* Kill a build if it has gone for more than a certain number of	Eelco Dolstra	1	-14/+18
	seconds without producing output on stdout or stderr (NIX-65). This timeout can be specified using the `--max-silent-time' option or the `build-max-silent-time' configuration setting. The default is infinity (0). * Fix a tricky race condition: if we kill the build user before the child has done its setuid() to the build user uid, then it won't be killed, and we'll potentially lock up in pid.wait(). So also send a conventional kill to the child.
2006-12-07	* Move setuidCleanup() to libutil.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-25/+0

2006-12-06	* nix-setuid-helper: allow running programs under a different uid.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-11/+24

2006-12-05	* Allow unprivileged users to run the garbage collector and to do	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+0
	`nix-store --delete'. But unprivileged users are not allowed to ignore liveness. * `nix-store --delete --ignore-liveness': ignore the runtime roots as well.
2006-12-05	* In addPermRoot, check that the root that we just registered can be	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	found by the garbage collector. This addresses NIX-71 and is a particular concern in multi-user stores.
2006-12-04	* Daemon mode (`nix-worker --daemon'). Clients connect to the server	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+6
	via the Unix domain socket in /nix/var/nix/daemon.socket. The server forks a worker process per connection. * readString(): use the heap, not the stack. * Some protocol fixes.
2006-12-04	* Install the worker in bindir, not libexecdir.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-0/+2
	* Allow the worker path to be overriden through the NIX_WORKER environment variable.
2006-12-03	* Doh.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-1/+4

2006-12-03	* Don't run setuid root when build-users is empty.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	* Send startup errors to the client.
2006-12-03	* Removed `build-allow-root'.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-0/+5
	* Added `build-users-group', the group under which builds are to be performed. * Check that /nix/store has 1775 permission and is owner by the build-users-group.
2006-12-03	* Use setreuid if setresuid is not available.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-6/+12

2006-12-02	* Remove most of the old setuid code.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+56
	* Much simpler setuid code for the worker in slave mode.
2006-11-30	* Refactoring. There is now an abstract interface class StoreAPI	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+3
	containing functions that operate on the Nix store. One implementation is LocalStore, which operates on the Nix store directly. The next step, to enable secure multi-user Nix, is to create a different implementation RemoteStore that talks to a privileged daemon process that uses LocalStore to perform the actual operations.
2006-11-18	* Turn off synchronisation between C and C++ I/O functions. This	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	gives a huge speedup in operations that read or write from standard input/output. (So libstdc++'s I/O isn't that bad, you just have to call std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false).) For instance, `nix-store --register-substitutes' went from 1.4 seconds to 0.1 seconds on a certain input. Another victory for Valgrind.
2006-09-27	* Fix setuid builds.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+0

2006-09-04	* Move setuid stuff to libutil.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-133/+0
	* Install libexpr header files.
2006-09-04	* Don't need extern "C".	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+0

2006-09-04	* Use a proper namespace.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-14/+27
	* Optimise header file usage a bit. * Compile the parser as C++.
2006-09-04	* Store the Nix libraries in ${libdir}/nix instead of ${libdir}.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2006-08-29	* Support singleton values and nested lists again in `args', but print	Eelco Dolstra	1	-7/+4
	a warning.
2006-08-10	* New configuration setting `build-max-jobs' which sets the default	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+7
	for the `-j' flag (i.e., the maximum number of jobs to execute in parallel). Useful on multi-processor machines.
2006-07-20	* Use $(libexecdir) to find find-runtime-roots.pl.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-0/+2

2006-07-06	* Allow the canonical system name to be specified at runtime in the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	Nix config file.
2006-05-12	* Support for srcdir != builddir (NIX-41).	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2

2006-03-10	* Allow `make check' to work in directories that have symlink	Eelco Dolstra	1	-23/+2
	components.
2006-03-01	* Close the database before the destructor runs.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+3

2006-01-09	* dirOf: return "/", not "", for paths in the root directory. Fixes NIX-26.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2005-11-04	* Install signal handlers for SIGTERM and SIGHUP. This ensures that	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+4
	Nix is properly shut down when it receives those signals. In particular this ensures that killing the garbage collector doesn't cause a subsequent database recovery.