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2005-10-17 * Also kill all processes of the build user after the build. This isEelco Dolstra1-0/+8
critical to prevent certain kinds of 0wnage.
2005-10-17 * Before starting a build under some uid, kill all current processesEelco Dolstra1-0/+48
running under that uid.
2005-10-17 * Check that the build result is owned by the build user, and thatEelco Dolstra1-2/+13
nobody else has write permission to the build result. This catches most hack attempts.
2005-10-17 * Don't use FIFOs to make Nix create the output path on behalf of theEelco Dolstra1-68/+17
builder. Instead, require that the Nix store has sticky permission (S_ISVTX); everyone can created files in the Nix store, but they cannot delete, rename or modify files created by others.
2005-10-17 * Beginning of secure multi-user Nix stores. If Nix is started asEelco Dolstra4-58/+219
root (or setuid root), then builds will be performed under one of the users listed in the `build-users' configuration variables. This is to make it impossible to influence build results externally, allowing locally built derivations to be shared safely between users (see ASE-2005 paper). To do: only one builder should be active per build user.
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).
2005-10-05 * log2xml -> nix-log2xml.Eelco Dolstra7-1/+1
2005-10-05 * Install the XSL stylesheets for log to html conversion.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+14
2005-09-22 * Lets not go wild with templates.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+6
2005-09-22 * Parse multi-valued options.Eelco Dolstra4-15/+53
2005-09-21 * Configuration options for trusted local builds.Eelco Dolstra2-5/+12
2005-09-20 * Typo.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2005-09-14 * List concatenation must be right-associative for efficiency.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2005-09-13 * Missing #include.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2005-09-01 * `nix-env -e' corrupts memory due to incorrect use of iterators.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+6
Reported by Rob Vermaas.
2005-08-14 * `dependencyClosure' now allows a search path, e.g.,Eelco Dolstra1-20/+69
dependencyClosure { ... searchPath = [ ../foo ../bar ]; ... } * Primop `dirOf' to return the directory part of a path (e.g., dirOf /a/b/c == /a/b). * Primop `relativise' (according to Webster that's a real word!) that given paths A and B returns a string representing path B relative path to A; e.g., relativise /a/b/c a/b/x/y => "../x/y".
2005-08-14 * A primitive operation `dependencyClosure' to do automatic dependencyEelco Dolstra1-0/+112
determination (e.g., finding the header files dependencies of a C file) in Nix low-level builds automatically. For instance, in the function `compileC' in make/lib/default.nix, we find the header file dependencies of C file `main' as follows: localIncludes = dependencyClosure { scanner = file: import (findIncludes { inherit file; }); startSet = [main]; }; The function works by "growing" the set of dependencies, starting with the set `startSet', and calling the function `scanner' for each file to get its dependencies (which should yield a list of strings representing relative paths). For instance, when `scanner' is called on a file `foo.c' that includes the line #include "../bar/fnord.h" then `scanner' should yield ["../bar/fnord.h"]. This list of dependencies is absolutised relative to the including file and added to the set of dependencies. The process continues until no more dependencies are found (hence its a closure). `dependencyClosure' yields a list that contains in alternation a dependency, and its relative path to the directory of the start file, e.g., [ /bla/bla/foo.c "foo.c" /bla/bar/fnord.h "../bar/fnord.h" ] These relative paths are necessary for the builder that compiles foo.c to reconstruct the relative directory structure expected by foo.c. The advantage of `dependencyClosure' over the old approach (using the impure `__currentTime') is that it's completely pure, and more efficient because it only rescans for dependencies (i.e., by building the derivations yielded by `scanner') if sources have actually changed. The old approach rescanned every time.
2005-08-14 * nix-hash: option `--truncate' to truncate the hash to 160 bits. Hmm,Eelco Dolstra2-0/+4
kind of ad hoc ;-)
2005-08-01 * Escape ASCII characters < 32 to Unicode FFFD (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER)Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
so that we don't produce un-wellformed XML.
2005-08-01 * Oops. XSL stylesheet to mark errors.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+24
2005-08-01 * Mark error lines in red, and expand subtrees containing errorsEelco Dolstra2-2/+14
automatically.
2005-07-25 * Added a list concatenation operator:Eelco Dolstra6-12/+27
[1 2 3] ++ [4 5 6] => [1 2 3 4 5 6]
2005-07-22 * Build dynamic libraries.Eelco Dolstra9-20/+20
2005-07-19 * Prevent repeated wrapping of closed termsEelco Dolstra1-1/+6
(closed(closed(closed(...)))) since this reduces performance by producing bigger terms and killing caching (which incidentally also prevents useful infinite recursion detection).
2005-07-16 * Wat cleanups.Eelco Dolstra1-10/+5
2005-07-16 * Define paths using regexps, as is done in the Flex definition.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+2
2005-07-16 * Make the rejects a bit more compact.Eelco Dolstra1-7/+2
* Add lexical restrictions for keywords.
2005-07-16 * Fix ambiguity.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2005-07-16 * Revive and update the SDF grammar for Nix expressions.Eelco Dolstra2-0/+149
2005-07-12 * In nix-instantiate, at top-level, call functions that have argumentsEelco Dolstra1-0/+17
with default values automatically. I.e., e -> e {}. This feature makes convenience expressions such as pkgs/system/i686-linux.nix in Nixpkgs obsolete, since we can just do $ nix-instantiate ./pkgs/system/all-packages.nix since all-packages.nix takes a single argument (system) that has a default value (__thisSystem).
2005-05-18 * Added a primop `removeAttrs' to remove attributes from a set, e.g.,Eelco Dolstra1-0/+18
`removeAttrs attrs ["x", "y"]' returns the set `attrs' with the attributes named `x' and `y' removed. It is not an error for the named attributes to be missing from the input set.
2005-05-10 * Ignore (with a warning) invalid garbage collector roots.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+6
2005-05-10 * Typo.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2005-05-09 * Handle store path arguments in `nix-env -i' correctly again.Eelco Dolstra1-9/+30
2005-05-09 * Automatically upgrade the Berkeley DB environment if necessary.Eelco Dolstra2-106/+133
2005-05-08 * Lazily compute the derivation and output paths of derivations. ThisEelco Dolstra1-40/+63
makes most query and installation operations much faster (e.g., `nix-env -qa' on the current Nixpkgs is about 10 times faster).
2005-05-08 * ATermMap needs an assignment operator, otherwise we are screwed.Eelco Dolstra2-6/+36
2005-05-07 Commit 3000!Eelco Dolstra1-7/+23
* Make the `derivation' primitive much more lazy. The expression `derivation attrs' now evaluates to (essentially) attrs // { type = "derivation"; outPath = derivation! attrs; drvPath = derivation! attrs; } where `derivation!' is a primop that does the actual derivation instantiation (i.e., it does what `derivation' used to do). The advantage is that it allows commands such as `nix-env -qa' and `nix-env -i' to be much faster since they no longer need to instantiate all derivations, just the `name' attribute. (However, `nix-env' doesn't yet take advantage of this since it still always evaluates the `outPath' and `drvPath' attributes). Also, this allows derivations to cyclically reference each other, for example, webServer = derivation { ... hostName = "svn.cs.uu.nl"; services = [svnService]; }; svnService = derivation { ... hostName = webServer.hostName; }; Previously, this would yield a black hole (infinite recursion).
2005-05-07 * Don't try to register GC roots in read-only mode.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
2005-05-04 * Include some required header files.Eelco Dolstra3-1/+4
2005-05-04 * FreeBSD 4.x doesn't have stdint.h, use inttypes.h instead (which isEelco Dolstra3-3/+3
also part of ISO C).
2005-05-04 * Idem (constness fix).Eelco Dolstra1-2/+2
* `compare' in GCC 2.95 is broken.
2005-05-04 * GCC 2.95 compatibility fix in constness; strangely, I think thisEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
should not have worked at all.
2005-05-04 * GCC 2.95 compatibility. Prevents internal compiler error in memberEelco Dolstra2-2/+2
template friends.
2005-05-04 * The eof() state isn't guaranteed to be set non-lazily. GCC 2.95Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
compatibility fix.
2005-05-02 * Merging from nix-make branch:Eelco Dolstra1-6/+40
- Add __currentTime primitive (dangerous!). - Allow imports of derivations.
2005-04-13 * Remove redundant message.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+0
2005-04-12 * Garbage collector fix: allow deletion of paths that have invalidEelco Dolstra1-4/+4
(but substitutable) referers.