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2005-01-19 * Support arities > 6.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+7
2005-01-18 * Get --readonly-mode to work again.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+11
2005-01-17 * Actually check that the result of fixed-output derivations matchesEelco Dolstra1-0/+25
the specified hash.
2005-01-17 * Removed the `id' attribute hack.Eelco Dolstra14-90/+268
* Formalise the notion of fixed-output derivations, i.e., derivations for which a cryptographic hash of the output is known in advance. Changes to such derivations should not propagate upwards through the dependency graph. Previously this was done by specifying the hash component of the output path through the `id' attribute, but this is insecure since you can lie about it (i.e., you can specify any hash and then produce a completely different output). Now the responsibility for checking the output is moved from the builder to Nix itself. A fixed-output derivation can be created by specifying the `outputHash' and `outputHashAlgo' attributes, the latter taking values `md5', `sha1', and `sha256', and the former specifying the actual hash in hexadecimal or in base-32 (auto-detected by looking at the length of the attribute value). MD5 is included for compatibility but should be considered deprecated. * Removed the `drvPath' pseudo-attribute in derivation results. It's no longer necessary. * Cleaned up the support for multiple output paths in derivation store expressions. Each output now has a unique identifier (e.g., `out', `devel', `docs'). Previously there was no way to tell output paths apart at the store expression level. * `nix-hash' now has a flag `--base32' to specify that the hash should be printed in base-32 notation. * `fetchurl' accepts parameters `sha256' and `sha1' in addition to `md5'. * `nix-prefetch-url' now prints out a SHA-1 hash in base-32. (TODO: a flag to specify the hash.)
2005-01-14 * Shorten SHA-256 hashes used in store path name generation to 160Eelco Dolstra7-36/+108
bits, then encode them in a radix-32 representation (using digits and letters except e, o, u, and t). This produces store paths like /nix/store/4i0zb0z7f88mwghjirkz702a71dcfivn-aterm-2.3.1. The nice thing about this is that the hash part of the file name is still 32 characters, as before with MD5. (Of course, shortening SHA-256 to 160 bits makes it no better than SHA-160 in theory, but hopefully it's a bit more resistant to attacks; it's certainly a lot slower.)
2005-01-14 * Start move towards SHA-256 hashes instead of MD5.Eelco Dolstra9-34/+63
* Start cleaning up unique store path generation (they weren't always unique; in particular the suffix ("-aterm-2.2", "-builder.sh") was not part of the hash, therefore changes to the suffix would cause multiple store objects with the same hash).
2005-01-14 * Add SHA-256.Eelco Dolstra7-5/+905
* Tests for the various hashes.
2005-01-14 * Removed some dead code.Eelco Dolstra2-152/+1
2005-01-13 * Added SHA-1 support. `nix-hash' now has an option `--type sha1' toEelco Dolstra9-26/+487
select SHA-1 hashing.
2005-01-13 * Refactoring to support SHA-1.Eelco Dolstra6-18/+36
2005-01-04 * Cygwin compatibility.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2004-12-29 * Integrated bsdiff/bspatch 4.2 (fromEelco Dolstra8-1/+816
http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/bsdiff-4.2.tar.gz) into the source tree. The license is a bit peculiar, but it does allow verbatim copying, which is what we do here (i.e., so don't make any changes to the sources).
2004-12-20 * An operation `nix-store --clear-substitutes' to remove allEelco Dolstra1-8/+35
registered substitute mappings.
2004-12-20 * Simplify the substitute mechanism:Eelco Dolstra5-122/+42
- Drop the store expression. So now a substitute is just a command-line invocation (a program name + arguments). If you register a substitute you are responsible for registering the expression that built it (if any) as a root of the garbage collector. - Drop the substitutes-rev DB table.
2004-11-29 * utime() follows symlinks, so don't change the mtime if the file is aEelco Dolstra1-7/+8
symlink.
2004-11-29 * Remove debug statement.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+0
2004-11-29 * Canonicalise metadata of all files in store paths (set the mtime toEelco Dolstra1-2/+58
0, set the mode to either 444 or 555, set the group to the default).
2004-11-12 * Document --delete-generations and other nix-env options.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+4
2004-11-12 * Document --eval-only and --parse-only options in nix-instantiate.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+3
2004-11-08 * Fix broken format string.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-11-03 * string2ATerm -> overloaded toATerm.Eelco Dolstra10-43/+61
2004-10-29 * Drop ATmake / ATMatcher also in handling store expressions.Eelco Dolstra19-258/+118
2004-10-27 * Bug fix in parsing of /* ... */ comments; due to longest matchEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
regexp there could be only one such comment per file.
2004-10-27 * Turn on read-only mode in queries. This prevents redundant store I/O.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2004-10-27 * Oops, I did it again.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2004-10-27 * Add file to `make dist'.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-10-26 * Bug: check that term is an application.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-10-26 * Don't use ATmake / ATmatch anymore, nor the ATMatcher class.Eelco Dolstra11-304/+410
Instead we generate data bindings (build and match functions) for the constructors specified in `constructors.def'. In particular this removes the conversions between AFuns and strings, and Nix expression evaluation now seems 3 to 4 times faster.
2004-10-26 * Evaluate argument to `import'.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
2004-10-26 * Doh!Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-10-26 * String/path concatenation operator (`+').Eelco Dolstra5-5/+38
2004-10-26 * Mode `--parse-only' to parse the input (on stdin, `-'), and printEelco Dolstra1-8/+28
out the AST as an ATerm. * Mode `--eval-only' to parse and evaluate the input, and print the resulting normal form as an ATerm. Neither of these modes require store/DB write permission.
2004-10-25 * New language feature: with expressions.Eelco Dolstra5-13/+39
The expression `with E1; E2' evaluates to E2 with all bindings in the attribute set E1 substituted. E.g., with {x = 123;}; x evaluates to 123. That is, the attribute set E1 is in scope in E2. This is particularly useful when importing files containing lots definitions. E.g., instead of let { inherit (import ./foo.nix) a b c d e f; body = ... a ... f ...; } we can now say with import ./foo.nix; ... a ... f ... I.e., we don't have to say what variables should be brought into scope.
2004-10-25 * Allow certain operations to succeed even if we don't have writeEelco Dolstra9-16/+58
permission to the Nix store or database. E.g., `nix-env -qa' will work, but `nix-env -qas' won't (the latter needs DB access). The option `--readonly-mode' forces this mode; otherwise, it's only activated when the database cannot be opened.
2004-10-25 * Revert r1594 - it didn't solve the problem. Instead addEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
svn-revision to distributions, which should fix it.
2004-10-25 * Make sure that the prerelease version is included in `--version'.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2004-10-14 * In `nix-env -q', sort derivations by name *without* caseEelco Dolstra1-1/+9
sensitivity.
2004-09-22 * Make store objects created by substitutes read-only.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2004-09-12 * Fallback didn't work for subderivations of an unnormalised the mainEelco Dolstra1-44/+7
derivation, since NormalisationGoal would first run a NormalisationGoal on the subderivation (a no-op, since in a situation where we need fallback the successor is known), and then runs a RealisationGoal on the normal form, which then cannot do a fallback because it doesn't know the derivation expression for which it is a normal form. Tossed out the 2-phase normalisation/realisation in NormalisationGoal and SubstitutionGoal since it's no longer needed - a RealisationGoal will run a NormalisationGoal if necessary.
2004-09-10 * Operation `--delete-generations' to delete generations of aEelco Dolstra8-33/+100
profile. Arguments are either generation number, or `old' to delete all non-current generations. Typical use: $ nix-env --delete-generations old $ nix-collect-garbage * istringstream -> string2Int.
2004-09-09 * Remove write permission from store objects after they have beenEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
added to the store. Bug reported by Martin.
2004-09-09 * A very dirty hack to make setuid installations a bit nicer to use.Eelco Dolstra6-15/+74
Previously there was the problem that all files read by nix-env etc. should be reachable and readable by the Nix user. So for instance building a Nix expression in your home directory meant that the home directory should have at least g+x or o+x permission so that the Nix user could reach the Nix expression. Now we just switch back to the original user just prior to reading sources and the like. The places where this happens are somewhat arbitrary, however. Any scope that has a live SwitchToOriginalUser object in it is executed as the original user. * Back out r1385. setreuid() sets the saved uid to the new real/effective uid, which prevents us from switching back to the original uid. setresuid() doesn't have this problem (although the manpage has a bug: specifying -1 for the saved uid doesn't leave it unchanged; an explicit value must be specified).
2004-09-09 * Use setre[ug]id() instead of setres[ug]id(), since the former isEelco Dolstra2-5/+5
more common than the latter (which exists only on Linux and FreeBSD). We don't really care about dropping the saved IDs since there apparently is no way to quiry them in any case, so it can't influence the build (unlike the effective IDs which are checked by Perl for instance).
2004-09-09 * Set the umask to known value (0022). This is important in aEelco Dolstra1-0/+6
setuid installation, since the calling user may have a more fascist umask (say, 0077), which would cause the store objects built by Nix to be unreadable to anyone other than the Nix user.
2004-08-31 * Main the `substitutes-rev' table again, but now in a way thatEelco Dolstra3-21/+40
doesn't take \Theta(n^2) space/time complexity.
2004-08-31 * Quadruple the Berkeley DB locking limits to get rid of out of memoryEelco Dolstra1-2/+21
errors while running `nix-store --verify'.
2004-08-30 * Removed nrWaitees field. It was redundant with waitees.size() andEelco Dolstra1-24/+5
could get out of sync if multiple input derivations mapped to the same closure expression (since waitees is a set).
2004-08-25 * `--min-age' flag in nix-store and nix-collect-garbage to only deleteEelco Dolstra3-13/+35
unreachable paths that haven't been used for N hours. For instance, `nix-collect-garbage --min-age 168' only deletes paths that haven't been accessed in the last week. This is useful for instance in the build farm where many derivations can be shared between consecutive builds, and we wouldn't want a garbage collect to throw them all away. We could of course register them as roots, but then we'd to unregister them at some point, which would be a pain to manage. The `--min-age' flag gives us a sort of MRU caching scheme. BUG: this really shouldn't be in gc.cc since that violates mechanism/policy separation.
2004-08-25 * `nix-collect-garbage' now actually performs a garbage collection, itEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
doesn't just print the set of paths that should be deleted. So there is no more need to pipe the result into `nix-store --delete' (which doesn't even exist anymore).
2004-08-25 * Put the garbage collector in nix-store: operation `--gc',Eelco Dolstra6-19/+167
suboperations `--print-live', `--print-dead', and `--delete'. The roots are not determined by nix-store; they are read from standard input. This is to make it easy to customise what the roots are. The collector now no longer fails when store expressions are missing (which legally happens when using substitutes). It never tries to fetch paths through substitutes. TODO: acquire a global lock on the store while garbage collecting. * Removed `nix-store --delete'.