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2009-11-23 * `nix-store --gc --print-roots': also print the path of the actualEelco Dolstra2-10/+0
root symlink, not just its target. E.g.: /nix/var/nix/profiles/system-99-link -> /nix/store/76kwf88657nq7wgk1hx3l1z5q91zb9wd-system
2009-11-23 * Made the garbage collector a lot faster. It no longer computes theEelco Dolstra2-166/+168
complete set of live and dead paths before starting the actual deletion, but determines liveness on demand. I.e. for any path in the store, it first tries to delete all the referrers, and then the path itself. This means that the collector can start deleting paths almost immediately.
2009-11-20 * Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. ManyEelco Dolstra4-151/+8
(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 Dolstra5-692/+15
2009-10-22 * When building in a chroot, make a copy of a file if hard-linkingEelco Dolstra1-2/+13
fails. This is likely to happen after a `nix-store --optimise', because some files may have 32000 links (NIX-111).
2009-10-22 * Remove a prototype for a function that no longer exists.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+0
2009-10-08 Added optional parameter which adds -lnsl -lsocket to make the Nix package ↵Sander van der Burg1-1/+1
manager work on OpenSolaris
2009-09-24 * And some more.Eelco Dolstra2-0/+2
2009-09-24 * Fix a build failure on Fedora 11. rename() needs <stdio.h>.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2009-09-23 * Darwin hack.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+7
2009-09-23 * Create some state directories automatically as a convenience.Eelco Dolstra2-6/+17
2009-09-23  * include wait.h for WEXITSTATUSRob Vermaas1-0/+1
2009-06-13 * Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01Eelco Dolstra2-3/+3
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.
2009-04-21 * Use foreach in a lot of places.Eelco Dolstra10-96/+59
2009-04-21 * nix-store --verify: don't bail out if a referenced path is missing.Eelco Dolstra1-14/+13
(It can't fix it though.)
2009-04-16 * Fix a few "comparison is always false/true due to limited range ofEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
data type" warnings on 64-bit platforms. The one in parser.y is likely to be a real bug.
2009-04-15 * Don't cache transient build hook problems.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+11
2009-03-31 * Do a substitution even if --max-jobs == 0.Eelco Dolstra1-17/+22
2009-03-31 * Doh!Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-03-30 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2009-03-30 * Make the poll interval configurable.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2009-03-29 * With `--max-jobs 0', print a nicer error message than "AssertionEelco Dolstra1-1/+5
`!awake.empty()' failed."
2009-03-29 * Use polling to wait for a remote build slot when using a build hookEelco Dolstra1-31/+1
(that is, call the build hook with a certain interval until it accepts the build). * build-remote.pl was totally broken: for all system types other than the local system type, it would send all builds to the *first* machine of the appropriate type.
2009-03-28 * Scan for references and compute the SHA-256 hash of the output inEelco Dolstra3-89/+50
one pass. This halves the amount of I/O.
2009-03-28 * Don't use the non-standard __gnu_cxx::stdio_filebuf class.Eelco Dolstra2-33/+17
2009-03-28 * Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use fileEelco Dolstra1-70/+16
descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2009-03-28 * The `fixedOutput' variable didn't get initialised when using a buildEelco Dolstra1-5/+6
hook, causing negative caching to fail randomly.
2009-03-27 * Create /nix/store if it doesn't exist.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2009-03-26 * Don't use ULLONG_MAX in maxFreed - use 0 to mean "no limit".Eelco Dolstra3-9/+4
18446744073709551615ULL breaks on GCC 3.3.6 (`integer constant is too large for "long" type').
2009-03-25 * Negative caching, i.e. caching of build failures. Disabled byEelco Dolstra3-6/+79
default. This is mostly useful for Hydra.
2009-03-24 * Doh.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-03-24 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-03-23 * No longer block while waiting for a lock on a store path. InsteadEelco Dolstra5-28/+85
poll for it (i.e. if we can't acquire the lock, then let the main select() loop wait for at most a few seconds and then try again). This improves parallelism: if two nix-store processes are both trying to build a path at the same time, the second one shouldn't block; it should first see if it can build other goals. Also, it prevents the deadlocks that have been occuring in Hydra lately, where a process waits for a lock held by another process that's waiting for a lock held by the first. The downside is that polling isn't really elegant, but POSIX doesn't provide a way to wait for locks in a select() loop. The only solution would be to spawn a thread for each lock to do a blocking fcntl() and then signal the main thread, but that would require pthreads.
2009-03-22 * Refactoring.Eelco Dolstra1-136/+85
2009-03-22 * NAR archives: handle files larger than 2^32 bytes. Previously itEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
would just silently store only (fileSize % 2^32) bytes. * Use posix_fallocate if available when unpacking archives. * Provide a better error message when trying to unpack something that isn't a NAR archive.
2009-03-18 * Unify exportReferencesGraph and exportBuildReferencesGraph, and makeEelco Dolstra1-48/+18
sure that it works as expected when you pass it a derivation. That is, we have to make sure that all build-time dependencies are built, and that they are all in the input closure (otherwise remote builds might fail, for example). This is ensured at instantiation time by adding all derivations and their sources to inputDrvs and inputSrcs.
2009-03-18 * Acquire the locks on the output paths before trying to run the buildEelco Dolstra1-145/+71
hook. This fixes a problem with log files being partially or completely filled with 0's because another nix-store process truncates the log file. It should also be more efficient.
2009-03-17 * Cleanup.Eelco Dolstra1-22/+9
2009-02-27 * Allow options from the Nix config file to be overriden from theEelco Dolstra2-0/+14
command line (e.g. "--option build-use-chroot true").
2009-02-16 * Release output locks as soon as possible, not when the destructor ofEelco Dolstra3-0/+14
the DerivationGoal runs. Otherwise, if a goal is a top-level goal, then the lock won't be released until nix-store finishes. With --keep-going and lots of top-level goals, it's possible to run out of file descriptors (this happened sometimes in the build farm for Nixpkgs). Also, for failed derivation, it won't be possible to build it again until the lock is released. * Idem for locks on build users: these weren't released in a timely manner for failed top-level derivation goals. So if there were more than (say) 10 such failed builds, you would get an error about having run out of build users.
2009-02-02 * Build hooks: use nix-store --import. This prevents a redundantEelco Dolstra2-9/+27
scan for runtime dependencies (i.e. the local machine shouldn't do a scan that the remote machine has already done). Also pipe directly into `nix-store --import': don't use a temporary file.
2009-01-27 * Make it compile on Debian 4.0 (which doesn't define PER_LINUX32_3GBEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
in sys/personality.h).
2009-01-13 * When using a build hook, distinguish between transient failuresEelco Dolstra1-4/+20
(e.g. an SSH connection problem) and permanent failures (i.e. the builder failed). This matters to Hydra (it wants to know whether it makes sense to retry a build).
2009-01-12 * Support i686-linux builds directly on x86_64-linux NixEelco Dolstra1-1/+18
installations. This is implemented using the personality() syscall, which causes uname to return "i686" in child processes.
2008-12-16 * nix-store --verify: repair bad hash fields in the metadata file.Eelco Dolstra2-5/+16
2008-12-16 * Pass --use-atime / --max-atime to the daemon.Eelco Dolstra2-1/+5
2008-12-15 * Delete the chroot if it already exists (e.g. left over from anEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
interrupted build).
2008-12-12 * Put chroots in the Nix store. This ensures that we can create hardEelco Dolstra2-2/+14
links to the inputs.
2008-12-12 * Simplify deleting .lock files in /nix/store: just don't delete themEelco Dolstra1-30/+18
if they belong a path that's currently being built. This gets rid of some Cygwin-specific code.
2008-12-12 * Detect whether unshare() is available.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+1