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2007-11-29	* nix-env -e: support uninstalling by path, so that one can say	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+1
	$ nix-env -e $(which firefox) or $ nix-env -e /nix/store/nywzlygrkfcgz7dfmhm5xixlx1l0m60v-pan-0.132 * nix-env -i: if an argument contains a slash anywhere, treat it as a path and follow it through symlinks into the Nix store. This allows things like $ nix-build -A firefox $ nix-env -i ./result * nix-env -q/-i/-e: don't complain when the `' selector doesn't match anything. In particular, `nix-env -q \' doesn't fail anymore on an empty profile.
2007-10-27	* Delete the chroot directory automatically.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+4
	* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-27	* Support for doing builds in a chroot under Linux. The builder is	Eelco Dolstra	1	-9/+23
	executed in a chroot that contains just the Nix store, the temporary build directory, and a configurable set of additional directories (/dev and /proc by default). This allows a bit more purity enforcement: hidden build-time dependencies on directories such as /usr or /nix/var/nix/profiles are no longer possible. As an added benefit, accidental network downloads (cf. NIXPKGS-52) are prevented as well (because files such as /etc/resolv.conf are not available in the chroot). However the usefulness of chroots is diminished by the fact that many builders depend on /bin/sh, so you need /bin in the list of additional directories. (And then on non-NixOS you need /lib as well...)
2007-09-17	* nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1
	Nix expressions in that directory are combined into an attribute set {file1 = import file1; file2 = import file2; ...}, i.e. each Nix expression is an attribute with the file name as the attribute name. Also recurses into directories. * nix-env: removed the "--import" (-I) option which set the ~/.nix-defexpr symlink. * nix-channel: don't use "nix-env --import", instead symlink ~/.nix-defexpr/channels. So finally nix-channel --update doesn't override any default Nix expressions but combines with them. This means that you can have (say) a local Nixpkgs SVN tree and use it as a default for nix-env: $ ln -s .../path-to-nixpkgs-tree ~/.nix-defexpr/nixpkgs_svn and be subscribed to channels (including Nixpkgs) at the same time. (If there is any ambiguity, the -A flag can be used to disambiguate, e.g. "nix-env -i -A nixpkgs_svn.pan".)
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