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2006-12-05 * Allow unprivileged users to run the garbage collector and to doEelco Dolstra2-2/+1
`nix-store --delete'. But unprivileged users are not allowed to ignore liveness. * `nix-store --delete --ignore-liveness': ignore the runtime roots as well.
2006-12-02 * Move addTempRoot() to the store API, and add another functionEelco Dolstra1-2/+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 SwitchToOriginalUser, we're not going to need it anymore.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+0
2006-11-30 * More remote operations.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+3
* Added new operation hasSubstitutes(), which is more efficient than querySubstitutes().size() > 0.
2006-11-30 * Skeleton of remote store implementation.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-11-30 * Put building in the store API.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+3
2006-11-30 * Refactoring. There is now an abstract interface class StoreAPIEelco Dolstra1-5/+5
containing functions that operate on the Nix store. One implementation is LocalStore, which operates on the Nix store directly. The next step, to enable secure multi-user Nix, is to create a different implementation RemoteStore that talks to a privileged daemon process that uses LocalStore to perform the actual operations.
2006-10-17 * Backwards compatibility with old user environment manifests.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+6
2006-10-17 * Maintain the references for the user environment properly.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-10-17 * Don't generate an empty drvPath attribute in the manifest.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+6
2006-10-16 * Big cleanup of the semantics of paths, strings, contexts, stringEelco Dolstra1-8/+8
concatenation and string coercion. This was a big mess (see e.g. NIX-67). Contexts are now folded into strings, so that they don't cause evaluation errors when they're not expected. The semantics of paths has been clarified (see nixexpr-ast.def). toString() and coerceToString() have been merged. Semantic change: paths are now copied to the store when they're in a concatenation (and in most other situations - that's the formalisation of the meaning of a path). So "foo " + ./bla evaluates to "foo /nix/store/hash...-bla", not "foo /path/to/current-dir/bla". This prevents accidental impurities, and is more consistent with the treatment of derivation outputs, e.g., `"foo " + bla' where `bla' is a derivation. (Here `bla' would be replaced by the output path of `bla'.)
2006-09-25 * Quick hack to let nix-install-package set the package name properlyEelco Dolstra1-1/+11
(e.g., "java-front-0.9pre15899" instead of "java-front"; particularly important when doing upgrades later on).
2006-09-14 * Wow, that bug has been there since r764.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2006-09-14 * nix-env --switch-generation / --list-generations /Eelco Dolstra1-0/+9
--delete-generations: lock the profile to prevent (extremely unlikely) race conditions.
2006-09-14 * Fix a huge gaping hole in nix-env w.r.t. the garbage collector.Eelco Dolstra1-12/+11
Nix-env failed to call addPermRoot(), which is necessary to safely add a new root. So if nix-env started after and finished before the garbage collector, the user environment (plus all other new stuff) it built might be garbage collected, leading to a dangling symlink chain in ~/.nix-profile... * Be more explicit if we block on the GC lock ("waiting for the big garbage collector lock..."). * Don't loop trying to create a new generation. It's not necessary anymore since profiles are locked nowadays.
2006-09-05 * Missing #include.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2006-09-04 * Use a proper namespace.Eelco Dolstra5-11/+40
* Optimise header file usage a bit. * Compile the parser as C++.
2006-08-25 * Remove those storePath attribute sets, we don't need 'em.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+1
2006-08-23 * Allow --arg in nix-env as well, example:Eelco Dolstra1-7/+20
$ nix-env -qa --system-filter \* --arg system '"powerpc-darwin"' to override the system from the default value (__currentSystem in all-packages.nix).
2006-08-16 * `nix-instantiate --{eval|parse}-only --xml': print an XMLEelco Dolstra1-4/+3
representation instead of an ATerm. * Indent XML output.
2006-08-09 * Fix the help message wrt --attr.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-08-07 * Workaround for a bug (?) in GCC 2.95.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-08-03 * `nix-env -q --xml': show query result in XML format for easierEelco Dolstra1-23/+80
automated processing.
2006-07-28 * `nix-instantiate ... --arg NAME VALUE': allow arguments to be passedEelco Dolstra1-4/+4
to functions from the command line. * nix-build: started removing backticks.
2006-07-26 * Refactoring: get the selection path stuff out of getDerivations()Eelco Dolstra1-5/+7
and put it into a separate function findAlongAttrPath().
2006-07-25 * Applied rbroek's patch from the branch atEelco Dolstra2-0/+7
https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/buildfarm-control/trunk/ext/nix/, with some modifications. This allows `nix-env -qa' to show the attribute path that can be used to unambiguously install a package using `nix-env -i -A'. Example: $ nix-env -f top-level/all-packages.nix -qaA subversion xorg-server subversionWithJava subversion-1.2.3 subversion subversion-1.3.2 subversion14 subversion-1.4.0pre-rc1 xorg.xorgserver xorg-server-1.1.0
2006-07-25 * Support the --attr / -A flag in nix-env as well. So now we can do,Eelco Dolstra2-3/+24
e.g., $ nix-env -i -A subversion xorg.xorgserver The main advantage over using symbolic names is that using attribute names is unambiguous and much, much faster.
2006-06-27 * `nix-env --upgrade --eq': only upgrade if the old version is equalEelco Dolstra2-2/+5
to the new version. This is actually useful.
2006-06-15 * In `nix-env -i|-u|-e', lock the profile to prevent races betweenEelco Dolstra1-0/+15
concurrent nix-env operations on the same profile. Fixes NIX-7.
2006-05-12 * Support for srcdir != builddir (NIX-41).Eelco Dolstra1-2/+3
2006-05-11 * 64-bit compatibility fixes (for problems revealed by building on an AthlonEelco Dolstra2-2/+2
64 running 64-bit SUSE). A patched ATerm library is required to run Nix succesfully.
2006-05-04 * Use the new ATermMap.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-05-02 * Huge reduction in memory use (2/3 or so on large nix-env -qasEelco Dolstra1-0/+1
operations): share ATermMaps between DrvInfos.
2006-03-10 * `nix-env -qa --description' shows human-readable descriptions ofEelco Dolstra1-0/+7
packages (provided that they have a `meta.description' attribute). E.g., $ ./src/nix-env/nix-env -qa --description gcc gcc-4.0.2 GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for sparc-linux) gcc-4.0.2 GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for mips-linux) gcc-4.0.2 GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for arm-linux) gcc-4.0.2 GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x
2006-03-10 * `nix-env -q' now accepts arguments that allow specific derivationsEelco Dolstra1-23/+27
to be queried, e.g., `nix-env -qa firefox'. This does require the argument '*' to be passed if one wants information about all derivations, so the old `nix-env -qa' now is `nix-env -qa "*"'.
2006-03-08 * When obtaining derivations from Nix expressions, ignore allEelco Dolstra1-35/+41
expressions that cause an assertion failure (like `assert system == "i686-linux"'). This allows all-packages.nix in Nixpkgs to be used on all platforms, even if some Nix expressions don't work on all platforms. Not sure if this is a good idea; it's a bit hacky. In particular, due to laziness some derivations might appear in `nix-env -qa' but disappear in `nix-env -qas' or `nix-env -i'. Commit 5000!
2006-03-06 * `nix-env (-i|-u) --dry-run' now shows exactly which missing pathsEelco Dolstra1-2/+36
will be built or substituted.
2006-03-06 * Regularise help text a bit.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-03-01 * db.hh shouldn't depend on the Berkeley DB headers.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2006-02-17 * In "nix-env -i", print a warning if there are multiple derivationsEelco Dolstra1-24/+16
with the same name *and* version number, and pick the first one (this means that the order in which channels appear in ~/.nix-channels matters). E.g.: $ nix-env ii aterm warning: there are multiple derivations named `aterm-2.4.2'; using the first one installing `aterm-2.4.2'
2006-02-17 * Fix for NIX-31: "nix-env -i foo" installing all derivations namedEelco Dolstra1-8/+62
foo. Now it will only install the one with the highest version number.
2006-02-17 * Fix the infamous NIX-17: nix-env -i prints misleading messagesEelco Dolstra1-7/+9
("installing `foo'" followed by "uninstalling `foo'").
2006-02-08 * Oops, fix breakage.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2006-02-08 * Refactoring: move derivation evaluation to libexpr.Eelco Dolstra1-186/+76
2006-02-01 * The "S" bit should be based on the output path, not the derivation path.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2006-01-26 * Oops, the "I" bit in "nix-env -qas" was broken. Reported by Nicolae Vintila.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2005-12-24 * Documentation fixes.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2005-10-06 * Swap the system and version comparion columns.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2005-10-06 * Only colorise if we are attached to a terminal.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+3
2005-10-06 * New query option: `--compare-versions' or `-c' to compare installedEelco Dolstra2-19/+89
versions to available versions, or vice versa. For example, the following compares installed versions to available versions: $ nix-env -qc autoconf-2.59 = 2.59 automake-1.9.4 < 1.9.6 f-spot-0.0.10 - ? firefox-1.0.4 < 1.0.7 ... I.e., there are newer versions available (in the current default Nix expression) for Automake and Firefox, but not for Autoconf, and F-Spot is missing altogether. Conversely, the available versions can be compared to the installed versions: $ nix-env -qac autoconf-2.59 = 2.59 automake-1.9.6 > 1.9.4 bash-3.0 - ? firefox-1.0.7 > 1.0.4 ... Note that bash is available but no version of it is installed. If multiple versions are available for comparison, then the highest is used. E.g., if Subversion 1.2.0 is installed, and Subversion 1.1.4 and 1.2.3 are available, then `nix-env -qc' will print `< 1.2.3', not `> 1.1.4'. If higher versions are available, the version column is printed in red (using ANSI escape codes).