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2007-03-20	* Override the setuid helper using NIX_SETUID_HELPER.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2

2007-03-19	* Terminate build hooks and substitutes with a TERM signal, not a KILL	Eelco Dolstra	3	-10/+27
	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)
2007-03-19	* Undocumented option `gc-check-reachability' to allow reachability	Eelco Dolstra	1	-7/+9
	checking to be turned off on machines with way too many roots.
2007-03-07	* Delete the output paths before invoking the build hook.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-14/+14

2007-03-01	* Look for the openssl program at compile time. If not found, call	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2
	openssl through $PATH at runtime.
2007-03-01	* Don't check the signature unless we have to.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-21/+23

2007-02-27	* Doh! The deriver can be empty.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2

2007-02-27	* Greatly reduced the amount of stack space used by the Nix expression	Eelco Dolstra	1	-188/+274
	evaluator. This was important because the NixOS expressions started to hit 2 MB default stack size on Linux. GCC is really dumb about stack space: it just adds up all the local variables and temporaries of every scope into one huge stack frame. This is really bad for deeply recursive functions. For instance, every `throw Error(format("error message"))' causes a format object of a few hundred bytes to be allocated on the stack. As a result, every recursive call to evalExpr2() consumed 4680 bytes. By splitting evalExpr2() and by moving the exception-throwing code out of the main functions, evalExpr2() now only consumes 40 bytes. Similar for evalExpr().
2007-02-27	* When NIX_SHOW_STATS=1, show the amount of stack space consumed by	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+10
	the Nix expression evaluator.
2007-02-22	* Handle EINTR in select().	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+3

2007-02-21	* Flush cout to show progress.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2007-02-21	* Export/import many paths in one go.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+8

2007-02-21	* `nix-store -qR' and friends: print the paths sorted topologically	Eelco Dolstra	3	-40/+12
	under the references relation. This is useful for commands that want to copy paths to another Nix store in the right order.
2007-02-21	* Flag `--print-invalid' in `nix-store --check-validity' to print out	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+14
	which paths specified on the command line are invalid (i.e., don't barf when encountering an invalid path, just print it). This is useful for build-remote.pl to figure out which paths need to be copied to a remote machine. (Currently we use rsync, but that's rather inefficient.)
2007-02-21	* Check that the file containing the secret key is secret.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+14

2007-02-21	* `nix-store --import' now also works in remote mode. The worker	Eelco Dolstra	4	-9/+62
	always requires a signature on the archive. This is to ensure that unprivileged users cannot add Trojan horses to the Nix store.
2007-02-21	* Support exportPath() in remote mode.	Eelco Dolstra	4	-5/+42

2007-02-21	* importPath(): set the deriver.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+13
	* exportPath(): lock the path, use a transaction.
2007-02-21	* `nix-store --import': import an archive created by `nix-store	Eelco Dolstra	8	-10/+142
	--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	7	-29/+122
	in /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec
2007-02-20	* Start of `nix-store --export' operation for serialising a store	Eelco Dolstra	6	-0/+50
	path. This is like `nix-store --dump', only it also dumps the meta-information of the store path (references, deriver). Will add a `--sign' flag later to add a cryptographic signature, which we will use for exchanging store paths between build farm machines in a secure manner.
2007-02-06	* Fix 64-bit compiler warnings.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-4/+4

2007-02-02	* nix-env now maintains meta info (from the `meta' derivation	Eelco Dolstra	5	-16/+89
	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
2007-01-29	* Doh!	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+0

2007-01-29	* computeStorePathForText: take the references into account when	Eelco Dolstra	5	-6/+18
	computing the store path (NIX-77). This is an important security property in multi-user Nix stores. Note that this changes the store paths of derivations (since the derivation aterms are added using addTextToStore), but not most outputs (unless they use builtins.toFile).
2007-01-29	* Don't capitalise the primop functions.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-76/+81

2007-01-29	* Organise primops.cc a bit better.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-321/+376

2007-01-29	New primitives:	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+43
	* `sub' to subtract two numbers. * `stringLength' to get the length of a string. * `substring' to get a substring of a string. These should be enough to allow most string operations to be expressed.
2007-01-29	* filterSource: pass strings to the predicate function instead of	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1
	paths. Paths can have unexpected semantics.
2007-01-24	* Nasty: Glibc clears the TMPDIR environment variable in setuid	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+8
	programs, so if a builder uses TMPDIR, then it will fail when executed through nix-setuid-helper. In fact Glibc clears a whole bunch of variables (see sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h in the Glibc sources), but only TMPDIR should matter in practice. As a workaround, we reinitialise TMPDIR from NIX_BUILD_TOP.
2007-01-23	* exportReferencesGraph: work on paths within store paths as well.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+10

2007-01-15	* Handle multiple indirect symlinks when loading a Nix expression.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-7/+7

2007-01-15	* builtins.filterSource: pass the type of the file ("regular",	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+18
	"directory", "symlink") as the second argument to the filter predicate.
2007-01-14	* `nix-store --verify': revive checking the referrers table. This is	Eelco Dolstra	1	-42/+56
	important to get garbage collection to work if there is any inconsistency in the database (because the referrer table is used to determine whether it is safe to delete a path). * `nix-store --verify': show some progress.
2007-01-14	* Make the garbage collector more resilient to certain consistency	Eelco Dolstra	3	-4/+10
	errors: in-use paths now cause a warning, not a fatal error.
2007-01-14	* Option --argstr for passing string arguments easily. (NIX-75)	Eelco Dolstra	6	-27/+63

2007-01-13	* nix-pack-closure: store the top-level store paths in the closure.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+9
	* nix-unpack-closure: extract the top-level paths from the closure and print them on stdout. This allows them to be installed, e.g., "nix-env -i $(nix-unpack-closure)". (NIX-64)
2007-01-13	* Allow multiple --attr / -A arguments in nix-build / nix-instantiate	Eelco Dolstra	1	-15/+20
	(NIX-74).
2007-01-13	* Removed chroot support.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-6/+0

2007-01-13	* Canonicalise ASTs in `nix-instantiate --eval': remove position	Eelco Dolstra	3	-1/+45
	info, sort attribute sets.
2007-01-13	* Memoize strict evaluation.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-13/+29

2007-01-13	* printTermAsXML: treat derivations specially; emit an element	Eelco Dolstra	1	-11/+55
	<derivation outPath=... drvPath=...> attrs </derivation>. Only emit the attributes of any specific derivation only. This prevents exponententially large XML output due to the absense of sharing.
2007-01-13	* Make printing an expression as XML interruptible.	Eelco Dolstra	2	-0/+7

2007-01-13	* Cleanup.	Eelco Dolstra	6	-16/+16

2006-12-13	* Remove debug message.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+0

2006-12-12	* New primop builtins.filterSource, which can be used to filter files	Eelco Dolstra	15	-66/+114
	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.
2006-12-12	* In dumpPath(): pass a function object that allows files to be	Eelco Dolstra	2	-14/+28
	selectively in/excluded from the dump.
2006-12-12	* New operation `nix-env --set' which sets a user environment to a	Eelco Dolstra	2	-0/+28
	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.
2006-12-12	* New built-in function `builtins.attrNames' that returns the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+21
	names of the attributes in an attribute set.
2006-12-09	* Use lchown() instead of chown() in canonicalisePathMetaData(). This	Eelco Dolstra	1	-8/+38
	matters when running as root, since then we don't use the setuid helper (which already used lchown()). * Also check for an obscure security problem on platforms that don't have lchown. Then we can't change the ownership of symlinks, which doesn't matter except when the containing directory is writable by the owner (which is the case with the top-level Nix store directory).