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2009-10-13	* Give a useful error message when an evaluation error occurs while	Eelco Dolstra	1	-41/+48
	trying to upgrade a package.
2009-07-02	* Replace newlines in table output with spaces.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-6/+7

2009-06-30	* Support integers and lists of strings in meta fields. This is	Eelco Dolstra	1	-28/+60
	useful for fields like meta.maintainers, meta.priority (which can be a proper integer now) and even meta.license (if there are multiple licenses).
2008-09-18	* Fix `--from-profile'.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+5

2008-09-02	* When writing the user environment manifest, filter out non-string	Eelco Dolstra	1	-7/+9
	attributes from the meta attribute. Not doing so caused nix-env to barf on the "psi" package, which has a meta.function attribute, the textual serialisation of which causes a gigantic string to be produced --- so big that it causes nix-env to run out of memory. Note however that "meta" really only should contain strings. meta.function should be passthru.function.
2008-08-25	* Minor simplification.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2008-08-25	* Strip off the `.nix' suffix from the attribute name for files in	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+14
	~/.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.
2008-08-04	* Use optimistic profile locking for nix-env operations like `-i' and	Eelco Dolstra	1	-138/+163
	`-u'. Instead of acquiring an exclusive lock on the profile for the entire duration of the operation, we just perform the operation optimistically (without an exclusive lock), and check at the end whether the profile changed while we were busy (i.e., the symlink target changed). If so, the operation is restarted. Restarting is generally cheap, since the build results are still in the Nix store. Most of the time, only the user environment has to be rebuilt.
2008-08-04	* `nix-env --set': support --dry-run.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+10

2008-08-04	* `nix-store --realise': print what paths will be built/downloaded,	Eelco Dolstra	1	-24/+3
	just like nix-env. * `nix-store --realise': --dry-run option.
2008-08-04	* Always show what paths we're going to build/download (as in	Eelco Dolstra	1	-9/+7
	--dry-run). Maybe there should be an option to turn this on/off?
2008-08-04	* nix-env --dry-run: show the total size of the substituter	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+4
	downloads.
2008-08-04	* querySubstitutablePathInfo: work properly when run via the daemon.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-5/+12
	* --dry-run: print the paths that we don't know how to build/substitute.
2008-06-09	* Merged the no-bdb branch (-r10900:HEAD	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+0
	https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/branches/no-bdb).
2007-11-29	* nix-env -e: support uninstalling by path, so that one can say	Eelco Dolstra	1	-19/+23
	$ 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.
2007-10-29	* Make the `--prebuilt-only' / `-b' option work not just for queries	Eelco Dolstra	1	-14/+20
	but installations/upgrades as well. So `nix-env -ub \*' will upgrade only those packages for which a substitute is available (or to be precise, it will upgrade each package to the highest version for which a substitute is available).
2007-09-18	* Ignore dangling symlinks in ~/.nix-defexpr.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+6

2007-09-17	* nix-env -qa: make the "-A" flag do the expected thing, namely follow	Eelco Dolstra	1	-78/+103
	the given attribute path (just as -A does with other option) (NIX-83). So you can now say $ nix-env -qa -A nixpkgs_unstable.gnome \* atk-1.12.4 esound-0.2.36 ... to see the packages in the "gnome" attribute in Nixpkgs. To print the attribute path, you should now use "--attr-path" / "-P" (running out of letters...).
2007-09-17	* nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-20/+48
	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".)
2007-08-06	* Optionally warn about packages that give an assertion failure.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-07-05	* Properly keep packages during upgrades.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+4

2007-05-01	* nix-env -i: instead of breaking package ties by version, break them	Eelco Dolstra	1	-13/+38
	by priority and version install. That is, if there are multiple packages with the same name, then pick the package with the highest priority, and only use the version if there are multiple packages with the same priority. This makes it possible to mark specific versions/variant in Nixpkgs more or less desirable than others. A typical example would be a beta version of some package (e.g., "gcc-4.2.0rc1") which should not be installed even though it is the highest version, except when it is explicitly selected (e.g., "nix-env -i gcc-4.2.0rc1"). * Idem for nix-env -u, only the semantics are a bit trickier since we also need to take into account the priority of the currently installed package (we never upgrade to a lower priority, unless --always is given).
2007-05-01	* `nix-env -q --xml --meta' to show all meta attributes.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+14

2007-04-30	* Doh.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-04-27	* Package flag "keep" that prevents a package from being removed from	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+6
	a user environment by an install or upgrade action. This is particularly useful if you have a version installed that you don't want to upgrade (e.g., because the newer versions are broken). Example: $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run (dry run; not doing anything) upgrading `zapping-0.9.6' to `zapping-0.10cvs6' $ nix-env --set-flag keep true zapping $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run (dry run; not doing anything) However, "-e" will still uninstall the package. (Maybe we should require the keep flag to be explicitly set to false before it can be uninstalled.)
2007-04-26	* nix-env -q now has a flag --prebuilt-only (-b<) that causes nix-env	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+8
	to show only those derivations whose output is already in the Nix store or that can be substituted (i.e., downloaded from somewhere). In other words, it shows the packages that can be installed “quickly”, i.e., don’t need to be built from source.
2007-02-02	* nix-env now maintains meta info (from the `meta' derivation	Eelco Dolstra	1	-14/+72
	attribute) about installed packages in user environments. Thus, an operation like `nix-env -q --description' shows useful information not only on available packages but also on installed packages. * nix-env now passes the entire manifest as an argument to the Nix expression of the user environment builder (not just a list of paths), so that in particular the user environment builder has access to the meta attributes. * New operation `--set-flag' in nix-env to change meta info of installed packages. This will be useful to pass per-package policies to the user environment builder (e.g., how to resolve collision or whether to disable a package (NIX-80)) or upgrade policies in nix-env (e.g., that a package should be "masked", that is, left untouched by upgrade actions). Example: $ nix-env --set-flag enabled false ghc-6.4
2007-01-15	* Handle multiple indirect symlinks when loading a Nix expression.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+1

2007-01-14	* Option --argstr for passing string arguments easily. (NIX-75)	Eelco Dolstra	1	-15/+8

2006-12-12	* New operation `nix-env --set' which sets a user environment to a	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+27
	single derivation specified by the argument. This is useful when we want to have a profile for a single derivation, such as a server configuration. Then we can just say (e.g.) $ nix-env -p /.../server-profile -f server.nix --set -A server We can't do queries or upgrades on such a profile, but we can do rollbacks. The advantage over -i is that we don't have to worry about other packages having been installed in the profile previously; --set gets rid of them.
2006-12-07	* Rename all those main.cc files.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+1210