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2008-11-19 * Primop builtins.storePath for declaring a store path as aEelco Dolstra1-0/+22
dependency. `storePath /nix/store/bla' gives exactly the same result as `toPath /nix/store/bla', except that the former includes /nix/store/bla in the dependency context of the string. Useful in some generated Nix expressions like nix-push, which now finally does the right thing wrt distributed builds. (Previously the path to be packed wasn't an explicit dependency, so it wouldn't be copied to the remote machine.)
2008-11-19 * Files in the info directory starting with "." are temporary filesEelco Dolstra1-2/+5
and don't indicate path validity.
2008-11-19 * nix-store --dump-db: be more streamy.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+3
2008-11-14 * Prevent zombies. Previous the SIGCHLD handler only reaped oneEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
zombie at a time, so if multiple children died before the handler got to run, some of them would not be cleaned up.
2008-11-14 * Restore SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL when running the builder. This preventsEelco Dolstra1-0/+13
subtle and often hard-to-reproduce bugs where programs in pipes either barf with a "Broken pipe" message or not, depending on the exact timing conditions. This particularly happened in GNU M4 (and Bison, which uses M4).
2008-11-12 * Some somewhat ad hoc mechanism to allow the build farm to monitorEelco Dolstra6-7/+71
build progress.
2008-11-11 * Pass the --no-build-output flag to the daemon.Eelco Dolstra3-1/+5
2008-11-11 * Add /dev/pts to the default nix.conf.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+4
2008-11-11 * Typo.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2008-10-29 * Put the chroots under /nix/var/nix/chroots to reduce the risk ofEelco Dolstra4-10/+15
disasters involving `rm -rf' on bind mounts. Will try the definitive fix (per-process mounts, apparently possible via the CLONE_NEWNS flag in clone()) some other time.
2008-10-16 libstore: Always mount `/dev/pts' individually.Ludovic Courtès1-0/+5
This fixes problems such as Tcl's PTY handling: ERROR: The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more.
2008-10-16 * Bug fix for building on some old installations (contributed by Pjotr).Eelco Dolstra1-0/+6
2008-09-18 * Fix `--from-profile'.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+5
2008-09-17 * GC option `--max-atime' that specifies an upper limit to the lastEelco Dolstra4-7/+24
accessed time of paths that may be deleted. Anything more recently used won't be deleted. The time is specified in time_t, e.g. seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC; use `date +%s' to convert to time_t from the command line. Example: to delete everything that hasn't been used in the last two months: $ nix-store --gc -v --max-atime $(date +%s -d "2 months ago")
2008-09-17 * Typo.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2008-09-17 * Some refactoring. Better output with `-v' for --use-atime.Eelco Dolstra2-35/+40
2008-09-17 * nix-store --gc / --delete: show how many store paths were deleted.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2008-09-17 * Garbage collector: added an option `--use-atime' to delete paths inEelco Dolstra6-56/+222
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().
2008-09-02 * When writing the user environment manifest, filter out non-stringEelco Dolstra1-7/+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.
2008-08-27 * Explicitly set PWD to prevent problems with chroot builds. InEelco Dolstra1-0/+6
particular, dietlibc cannot figure out the cwd because the inode of the current directory doesn't appear in .. (because getdents returns the inode of the mount point).
2008-08-27 * Create a /tmp with 1777 permission in the chroot. Some buildersEelco Dolstra1-12/+32
need a writable /tmp (they don't respect $TMPDIR).
2008-08-26 * Require that __overrides is defined as a non-recursive attributeEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
(which means it can only be defined via "inherit"), otherwise we get scoping bugs, since __overrides can't be recursive (or at least, it would be hard).
2008-08-25 * Disable chroot builds for fixed-output derivations so that we don'tEelco Dolstra1-1/+8
need /etc in the chroot (in particular, /etc/resolv.conf for fetchurl). Not having /etc/resolv.conf in the chroot is a good thing, since we don't want normal derivations to download files.
2008-08-25 * Evaluate attributes in sorted order for better determinism.Eelco Dolstra1-7/+16
2008-08-25 * Minor simplification.Eelco Dolstra2-10/+7
2008-08-25 * Doh.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+0
2008-08-25 * Strip off the `.nix' suffix from the attribute name for files inEelco Dolstra5-6/+27
~/.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.
2008-08-14 Fixing an obvious typo in override code. I do not know whether it works ↵Michael Raskin1-1/+1
correctly after the change, but at least it ca nbe compiled now.
2008-08-14 * Another experimental feature: a way to truly override attributes inEelco Dolstra2-2/+25
a rec. This will be very useful to allow end-user customisation of all-packages.nix, for instance globally overriding GCC or some other dependency. The // operator doesn't cut it: you could replace the "gcc" attribute, but all other attributes would continue to reference the original value due to the substitution semantics of rec. The syntax is a bit hacky but this is to allow backwards compatibility.
2008-08-14 * Added an experimental feature suggested by Andres: ellipses ("...")Eelco Dolstra7-18/+37
in attribute set pattern matches. This allows defining a function that takes *at least* the listed attributes, while ignoring additional attributes. For instance, {stdenv, fetchurl, fuse, ...}: stdenv.mkDerivation { ... }; defines a function that requires an attribute set that contains the specified attributes but ignores others. The main advantage is that we can then write in all-packages.nix aefs = import ../bla/aefs pkgs; instead of aefs = import ../bla/aefs { inherit stdenv fetchurl fuse; }; This saves a lot of typing (not to mention not having to update all-packages.nix with purely mechanical changes). It saves as much typing as the "args: with args;" style, but has the advantage that the function arguments are properly declared (not implicit in what the body of the "with" uses).
2008-08-14 * Backward compatibility check to prevent nixos-rebuild from barfingEelco Dolstra2-1/+2
when upgrading Nix.
2008-08-14 * @-patterns as in Haskell. For instance, in a function definitionEelco Dolstra5-46/+74
f = args @ {x, y, z}: ...; `args' refers to the argument as a whole, which is further pattern-matched against the attribute set pattern {x, y, z}.
2008-08-14 * "pattern" non-terminal.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+8
2008-08-14 * Refactoring: combine functions that take an attribute set andEelco Dolstra7-135/+165
functions that take a single argument (plain lambdas) into one AST node (Function) that contains a Pattern node describing the arguments. Current patterns are single lazy arguments (VarPat) and matching against an attribute set (AttrsPat). This refactoring allows other kinds of patterns to be added easily, such as Haskell-style @-patterns, or list pattern matching.
2008-08-14 * Increase the sleep periods a bit to make the test less likely toEelco Dolstra1-4/+0
fail on slow machines. Of course it would be better if this test wasn't timing dependent...
2008-08-11 * Removed the "valid values" feature. Nobody uses it anyway.Eelco Dolstra5-70/+18
2008-08-05 * Better error checking of the data from the substituters.Eelco Dolstra1-21/+16
2008-08-04 * Use optimistic profile locking for nix-env operations like `-i' andEelco Dolstra1-138/+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 Dolstra1-3/+10
2008-08-04 * `nix-store --realise': print what paths will be built/downloaded,Eelco Dolstra4-37/+50
just like nix-env. * `nix-store --realise': --dry-run option.
2008-08-04 * build.cc: only use a substituter if it returns info for a path.Eelco Dolstra3-51/+57
2008-08-04 * Always show what paths we're going to build/download (as inEelco Dolstra1-9/+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 substituterEelco Dolstra4-5/+15
downloads.
2008-08-04 * querySubstitutablePathInfo: work properly when run via the daemon.Eelco Dolstra7-16/+49
* --dry-run: print the paths that we don't know how to build/substitute.
2008-08-02 * Make nix-env --dry-run print the paths to be substituted correctlyEelco Dolstra10-180/+211
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.
2008-07-24 * Print a better error message when a non-derivation attribute set isEelco Dolstra1-3/+10
coerced to a string.
2008-07-18 * Allow read-only access to the store (e.g., non-root users on NixOSEelco Dolstra1-5/+9
can do operations like "nix-store -qR <path>" even without the Nix daemon).
2008-07-18 * Use the copy-from-other-stores substituter by default. Of course,Eelco Dolstra1-3/+4
it only does something if $NIX_OTHER_STORES (not really a good name...) is set. * Do globbing on the elements of $NIX_OTHER_STORES. E.g. you could set it to /mnts/*/nix or something. * Install substituters in libexec/nix/substituters.
2008-07-11 * Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,Eelco Dolstra1-137/+55
which is hopefully more useful. * New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-01 * Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparisonEelco Dolstra5-37/+54
logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops. This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency is a specific needed version or falls in some version range. See tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.