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2012-03-05 Set the close-on-exec flag on file descriptorsEelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2011-12-22 * In the garbage collector, delete invalid paths before deletingEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
unreachable paths. This matters when using --max-freed etc.: unreachable paths could become reachable again, so it's nicer to keep them if there is "real" garbage to be deleted. Also, don't use readDirectory() but read the Nix store and delete invalid paths in parallel. This reduces GC latency on very large Nix stores.
2010-12-13 * createDirs(path): if path already exists, make sure it's aEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
directory. * Provide a C++ wrapper around lstat().
2010-08-27 * Experimental feature: allow a derivation to tell the build hook thatEelco Dolstra1-0/+5
it requires a certain feature on the build machine, e.g. requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ]; We need this in Hydra to make sure that builds that require KVM support are forwarded to machines that have KVM support. Probably this should also be enforced for local builds.
2010-05-12 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra1-29/+13
2010-04-19 * Don't use the ATerm library for parsing/printing .drv files.Eelco Dolstra1-23/+12
2010-04-12 * Remove some obsolete functions.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+0
2010-03-23 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-03-04 * Synced with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+0
2010-02-24 * Don't use fdatasync since it doesn't work on Snow Leopard.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+0
* Don't refer to config.h in util.hh, because config.h is not installed (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/303053).
2010-02-24 * Remove the fdatasync check since it's no longer needed.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+1
2010-02-02 * If fdatasync() isn't available, use fsync().Eelco Dolstra1-0/+4
2010-01-29 * Added an option "fsync-metadata" to fsync() changes toEelco Dolstra1-5/+1
/nix/var/nix/db. * Removed the function writeStringToFile since it does (almost) the same thing as writeFile.
2009-12-17 * Include config.h before the C library headers, because it definesEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Without it, functions like stat() fail on large file sizes. This happened with a Nix store on squashfs: $ nix-store --dump /tmp/mnt/46wzqnk4cbdwh1dclhrpqnnz1icak6n7-local-net-cmds > /dev/null error: getting attributes of path `/tmp/mnt/46wzqnk4cbdwh1dclhrpqnnz1icak6n7-local-net-cmds': Value too large for defined data type $ stat /tmp/mnt/46wzqnk4cbdwh1dclhrpqnnz1icak6n7-local-net-cmds File: `/tmp/mnt/46wzqnk4cbdwh1dclhrpqnnz1icak6n7-local-net-cmds' Size: 0 Blocks: 36028797018963968 IO Block: 1024 regular empty file (This is a bug in squashfs or mksquashfs, but it shouldn't cause Nix to fail.)
2009-11-24 * Grrr.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2009-11-24 * GCC 4.4 is stricter about the EOF macroEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
(http://hydra.nixos.org/build/156340).
2009-11-24 * Templatise getIntArg / string2Int.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+7
2009-03-28 * Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use fileEelco Dolstra1-0/+6
descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2008-09-17 * Garbage collector: added an option `--use-atime' to delete paths inEelco Dolstra1-0/+23
order of ascending last access time. This is useful in conjunction with --max-freed or --max-links to prefer deleting non-recently used garbage, which is good (especially in the build farm) since garbage may become live again. The code could easily be modified to accept other criteria for ordering garbage by changing the comparison operator used by the priority queue in collectGarbage().
2008-08-25 * Strip off the `.nix' suffix from the attribute name for files inEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
~/.nix-defexpr, otherwise the attribute cannot be selected with the `-A' option. Useful if you want to stick a Nix expression directly in ~/.nix-defexpr.
2008-08-02 * Make nix-env --dry-run print the paths to be substituted correctlyEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
again. (After the previous substituter mechanism refactoring I didn't update the code that obtains the references of substitutable paths.) This required some refactoring: the substituter programs are now kept running and receive/respond to info requests via stdin/stdout.
2008-06-18 * --max-freed: support values >= 4 GB.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2008-06-18 * Some refactoring: put the GC options / results in separate structs.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+5
* The garbage collector now also prints the number of blocks freed.
2008-06-09 * Merged the no-bdb branch (-r10900:HEADEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/branches/no-bdb).
2008-03-27 * Use /tmp/nix-build-<drvpath>-<counter> instead ofEelco Dolstra1-1/+2
/tmp/nix-<pid>-<counter> for temporary build directories. This increases purity a bit: many packages store the temporary build path in their output, causing (generally unimportant) binary differences.
2007-10-27 * Delete the chroot directory automatically.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-27 * Support for doing builds in a chroot under Linux. The builder isEelco Dolstra1-3/+5
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...)
2007-08-12 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if weEelco Dolstra1-1/+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).
2007-05-01 * Set a terminate() handler to ensure that we leave the BDBEelco Dolstra1-0/+5
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 KILLEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
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-storeEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
--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 keyEelco Dolstra1-1/+2
in /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec
2006-12-12 * New primop builtins.filterSource, which can be used to filter filesEelco Dolstra1-2/+2
from a source directory. All files for which a predicate function returns true are copied to the store. Typical example is to leave out the .svn directory: stdenv.mkDerivation { ... src = builtins.filterSource (path: baseNameOf (toString path) != ".svn") ./source-dir; # as opposed to # src = ./source-dir; } This is important because the .svn directory influences the hash in a rather unpredictable and variable way.
2006-12-07 * Move setuidCleanup() to libutil.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+4
2006-12-07 * Move killUser() to libutil so that the setuid helper can use it.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+5
2006-12-04 * Daemon mode (`nix-worker --daemon'). Clients connect to the serverEelco Dolstra1-0/+17
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 * Some hackery to propagate the worker's stderr and exceptions to theEelco Dolstra1-0/+2
client.
2006-12-02 * Remove most of the old setuid code.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+0
* Much simpler setuid code for the worker in slave mode.
2006-12-02 * Remove SwitchToOriginalUser, we're not going to need it anymore.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+0
2006-11-24 * Doh! Path sizes need to be computed recursively of course.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
(NIX-70)
2006-09-04 * Move setuid stuff to libutil.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+3
* Install libexpr header files.
2006-09-04 * Use a proper namespace.Eelco Dolstra1-54/+5
* Optimise header file usage a bit. * Compile the parser as C++.
2006-08-29 * Fix the ~ operator.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2006-08-26 * Refactoring.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2006-07-20 * Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to preventEelco Dolstra1-0/+14
running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-07-06 * Allow the canonical system name to be specified at runtime in theEelco Dolstra1-4/+0
Nix config file.
2006-03-08 * Some refactoring of the exception handling code so that we can catchEelco Dolstra1-5/+9
Nix expression assertion failures.
2006-01-08 * Resolve all symlink components in the location of the temporaryEelco Dolstra1-2/+4
build directory (TMPDIR, i.e., /tmp). Fixes NIX-26.
2005-12-15 * `nix-store --gc' prints out the number of bytes freed on stdoutEelco Dolstra1-1/+4
(even when it is interrupted by a signal).
2005-09-22 * Parse multi-valued options.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+4