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2007-08-12	* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+5
	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	-3/+17
	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.
2007-03-19	* Terminate build hooks and substitutes with a TERM signal, not a KILL	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+12
	signal. This is necessary because those processes may have joined the BDB environment, so they have to be given a chance to clean up. (NIX-85)
2007-02-21	* `nix-store --import': import an archive created by `nix-store	Eelco Dolstra	1	-5/+5
	--export' into the Nix store, and optionally check the cryptographic signatures against /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.pub. (TODO: verify against a set of public keys.)
2007-02-21	* `nix-store --export --sign': sign the Nix archive using the RSA key	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+12
	in /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec
2006-12-07	* Move setuidCleanup() to libutil.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+16

2006-12-07	* Change the ownership of store paths to the Nix account before	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	deleting them using the setuid helper.
2006-12-07	* Move killUser() to libutil so that the setuid helper can use it.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+47

2006-12-05	* The determination of the root set should be made by the privileged	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1
	process, so forward the operation. * Spam the user about GC misconfigurations (NIX-71). * findRoots: skip all roots that are unreadable - the warnings with which we spam the user should be enough.
2006-12-04	* Daemon mode (`nix-worker --daemon'). Clients connect to the server	Eelco Dolstra	1	-14/+3
	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.
2006-12-03	* Pid::kill() should be interruptable.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+3

2006-12-03	* Some hackery to propagate the worker's stderr and exceptions to the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+10
	client.
2006-12-02	* Move addTempRoot() to the store API, and add another function	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2
	syncWithGC() to allow clients to register GC roots without needing write access to the global roots directory or the GC lock.
2006-12-02	* Remove most of the old setuid code.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-130/+1
	* Much simpler setuid code for the worker in slave mode.
2006-12-02	* Remove SwitchToOriginalUser, we're not going to need it anymore.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-31/+0

2006-11-29	* Don't spam.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2

2006-11-29	* Example script to set permissions for setuid operation.	Roy van den Broek	1	-1/+1

2006-11-29	* Remove --enable-setuid, --with-nix-user and --with-nix-group.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-26/+45
	Rather, setuid support is now always compiled in (at least on platforms that have the setresuid system call, e.g., Linux and FreeBSD), but it must enabled by chowning/chmodding the Nix binaries.
2006-11-24	* Doh! Path sizes need to be computed recursively of course.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+23
	(NIX-70)
2006-10-30	* readFile: don't overflow the stack on large files.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+15

2006-09-27	* Fix setuid builds.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-5/+9

2006-09-04	* Move setuid stuff to libutil.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+136
	* Install libexpr header files.
2006-09-04	* Use a proper namespace.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-12/+14
	* Optimise header file usage a bit. * Compile the parser as C++.
2006-08-29	* Fix the ~ operator.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+9

2006-08-26	* Refactoring.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+9

2006-08-04	* Weird issue on Cygwin with the include file order.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+4

2006-07-20	* Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to prevent	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+84
	running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-07-06	* Allow the canonical system name to be specified at runtime in the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+0
	Nix config file.
2006-06-19	* Write messages to stderr in a slightly more atomic way. Useful when	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2
	there are several parallel processes.
2006-06-14	* Fix for a problem with BSD's group ownership semantics when the user	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+13
	is not in the "wheel" group.
2006-05-11	* 64-bit compatibility fixes (for problems revealed by building on an Athlon	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2
	64 running 64-bit SUSE). A patched ATerm library is required to run Nix succesfully.
2006-03-08	* Some refactoring of the exception handling code so that we can catch	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+7
	Nix expression assertion failures.
2006-01-09	* dirOf: return "/", not "", for paths in the root directory. Fixes NIX-26.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2006-01-08	* Resolve all symlink components in the location of the temporary	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+21
	build directory (TMPDIR, i.e., /tmp). Fixes NIX-26.
2005-12-15	* `nix-store --gc' prints out the number of bytes freed on stdout	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+13
	(even when it is interrupted by a signal).
2005-09-22	* Parse multi-valued options.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+15

2005-05-04	* The eof() state isn't guaranteed to be set non-lazily. GCC 2.95	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	compatibility fix.
2005-03-24	* Create missing log and temproots directories automatically (reported	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+10
	by Rob).
2005-02-09	* Automatically upgrade <= 0.7 Nix stores to the new schema (so that	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+9
	existing user environments continue to work). * `nix-store --verify': detect incomplete closures.
2005-02-01	* A GC setting `gc-keep-outputs' to specify whether output paths of	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+21
	derivations should be kept.
2005-02-01	* nix-build: use an indirection scheme to make it easier for users to	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+9
	get rid of GC roots. Nix-build places a symlink `result' in the current directory. Previously, removing that symlink would not remove the store path being linked to as a GC root. Now, the GC root created by nix-build is actually a symlink in `/nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto' to `result'. So if that symlink is removed the GC root automatically becomes invalid (since it can no longer be resolved). The root itself is not automatically removed - the garbage collector should delete dangling roots.
2005-01-31	* Topologically sort paths under the references relation to ensure	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+0
	that they are deleted in an order that maintains the closure invariant. * Presence of a path in a temporary roots file does not imply that all paths in its closure are also present, so add the closure.
2005-01-31	* Start of concurrent garbage collection. Processes write temporary	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+10
	roots to a per-process temporary file in /nix/var/nix/temproots while holding a write lock on that file. The garbage collector acquires read locks on all those files, thus blocking further progress in other Nix processes, and reads the sets of temporary roots.
2005-01-27	* Make lock removal safe by signalling to blocked processes that the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+9
	lock they are waiting on has become stale (we do this by writing a meaningless token to the unlinked file).
2005-01-20	* Another change to low-level derivations. The last one this year, I	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+2
	promise :-) This allows derivations to specify on what output paths of input derivations they are dependent. This helps to prevent unnecessary downloads. For instance, a build might be dependent on the `devel' and `lib' outputs of some library component, but not the `docs' output.
2004-11-08	* Fix broken format string.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2004-09-10	* Operation `--delete-generations' to delete generations of a	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+8
	profile. Arguments are either generation number, or `old' to delete all non-current generations. Typical use: $ nix-env --delete-generations old $ nix-collect-garbage * istringstream -> string2Int.
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.
2004-08-04	* Creating a file nix-support/no-scan in the output path of a	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	derivation disables scanning for dependencies. Use at your own risk. This is a quick hack to speed up UML image generation (image are very big, say 1 GB). It would be better if the scanner were faster, and didn't read the whole file into memory.
2004-06-25	* A flag `--keep-going / -k' to keep building goals if one fails, as	Eelco Dolstra	1	-9/+8
	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.