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2007-11-16	* Flag `--no-build-hook' to disable distributed builds.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1
	* 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	-0/+1
	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).
2006-12-08	* Kill a build if it has gone for more than a certain number of	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+10
	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.
2006-12-04	* Install the worker in bindir, not libexecdir.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1
	* Allow the worker path to be overriden through the NIX_WORKER environment variable.
2006-09-04	* Use a proper namespace.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+9
	* Optimise header file usage a bit. * Compile the parser as C++.
2006-07-20	* Use $(libexecdir) to find find-runtime-roots.pl.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1

2006-07-06	* Allow the canonical system name to be specified at runtime in the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2
	Nix config file.
2006-05-11	* 64-bit compatibility fixes (for problems revealed by building on an Athlon	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	64 running 64-bit SUSE). A patched ATerm library is required to run Nix succesfully.
2006-02-16	* Allow the size of the GC reserved file to be specified in nix.conf	Eelco Dolstra	1	-7/+12
	through the new `gc-reserved-space' option.
2005-10-17	* Beginning of secure multi-user Nix stores. If Nix is started as	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+0
	root (or setuid root), then builds will be performed under one of the users listed in the `build-users' configuration variables. This is to make it impossible to influence build results externally, allowing locally built derivations to be shared safely between users (see ASE-2005 paper). To do: only one builder should be active per build user.
2005-09-22	* Lets not go wild with templates.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+6

2005-09-22	* Parse multi-valued options.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-14/+33

2005-09-21	* Configuration options for trusted local builds.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-5/+2

2005-02-14	* Global configuration option `env-keep-derivations' to store pointer	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+11
	to derivations in user environments. Nice for developers (since it prevents build-time-only dependencies from being GC'ed, in conjunction with `gc-keep-outputs'). Turned off by default.
2005-02-01	* A GC setting `gc-keep-outputs' to specify whether output paths of	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+50
	derivations should be kept.
2004-10-25	* Allow certain operations to succeed even if we don't have write	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	permission to the Nix store or database. E.g., `nix-env -qa' will work, but `nix-env -qas' won't (the latter needs DB access). The option `--readonly-mode' forces this mode; otherwise, it's only activated when the database cannot be opened.
2004-08-18	* The default verbosity level of all Nix commands is now lvlInfo.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	* Builder output is written to standard error by default. * The option `-B' is gone. * The option `-Q' suppresses builder output. The result of this is that most Nix invocations shouldn't need any flags w.r.t. logging.
2004-06-28	* Added a switch `--fallback'. From the manual:	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a closure is already known, but this closure cannot be realised, fall back on normalising the derivation. The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution from, say, a network repository. If the repository is down, the realisation of the derivation will fail. When this option is specified, Nix will build the derivation instead. Thus, binary installation falls back on a source installation. This option is not the default since it is generally not desirable for a transient failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a full build from source (with the related consumption of resources).
2004-06-25	* A flag `--keep-going / -k' to keep building goals if one fails, as	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	much as possible. (This is similar to GNU Make's `-k' flag.) * Refactoring to implement this: previously we just bombed out when a build failed, but now we have to clean up. In particular this means that goals must be freed quickly --- they shouldn't hang around until the worker exits. So the worker now maintains weak pointers in order not to prevent garbage collection. * Documented the `-k' and `-j' flags.
2004-05-12	* A switch `-j NUMBER' to set the maximum number of parallel jobs (0 =	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	no limit). * Add missing file to distribution.
2004-01-13	* Option `-B' to always show the output of builders, regardless of	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	verbosity level.
2003-11-19	* nix-env: a tool to manage user environments.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1
	* Replace all directory reading code by a generic readDirectory() function.
2003-11-18	* libnix -> libstore.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+8