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particular happens on distributed builds or when using push/pull.
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print out incorrect "build failed" messages).
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derivation disables scanning for dependencies. Use at your own
risk. This is a quick hack to speed up UML image generation (image
are very big, say 1 GB).
It would be better if the scanner were faster, and didn't read the
whole file into memory.
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system types other than the current system. I.e., `nix-env -i'
won't install derivations for other system types, and `nix-env -q'
won't show them. The flag `--system-filter SYSTEM' can be used to
override the system type used for filtering (but not for
building!). The value `*' can be used not to filter anything.
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`nix-env -q'.
* Queries can now be combined, e.g., `nix-env -q --status --system'.
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derivations with names matching the derivations being installed.
The option `--preserve-installed / -P' overrides this behaviour.
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normalisation goal.
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upgrading.
This fixes a bug reported by Martin:
$ nix-env -i foo-1.0
$ nix-env -u foo-1.0
upgrading foo-1.0 to foo-1.1
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Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a closure is
already known, but this closure cannot be realised, fall back on
normalising the derivation.
The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have
registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution from,
say, a network repository. If the repository is down, the
realisation of the derivation will fail. When this option is
specified, Nix will build the derivation instead. Thus, binary
installation falls back on a source installation. This option is
not the default since it is generally not desirable for a transient
failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a full build from
source (with the related consumption of resources).
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much as possible. (This is similar to GNU Make's `-k' flag.)
* Refactoring to implement this: previously we just bombed out when
a build failed, but now we have to clean up. In particular this
means that goals must be freed quickly --- they shouldn't hang
around until the worker exits. So the worker now maintains weak
pointers in order not to prevent garbage collection.
* Documented the `-k' and `-j' flags.
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goal and allow the problem to be handled elsewhere (e.g., at
top-level).
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delete obstructing invalid paths.
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only caused a crash if the program was *not* invoked with a high
verbosity level.
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improve throughput.
* Don't build the `substitute-rev' table for now, since it caused
Theta(N^2) time and log file consumption when adding N substitutes.
Maybe we can do without it.
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flag doesn't seem to work as advertised.
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* A better substitute mechanism.
Instead of generating a store expression for each store path for
which we have a substitute, we can have a single store expression
that builds a generic program that is invoked to build the desired
store path, which is passed as an argument.
This means that operations like `nix-pull' only produce O(1) files
instead of O(N) files in the store when registering N substitutes.
(It consumes O(N) database storage, of course, but that's not a
performance problem).
* Added a test for the substitute mechanism.
* `nix-store --substitute' reads the substitutes from standard input,
instead of from the command line. This prevents us from running
into the kernel's limit on command line length.
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approach. This makes it much easier to add extra complexity in the
normaliser / realiser (e.g., build hooks, substitutes).
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hack.
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Linux), so use setpgid().
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* When a fast build wakes up a goal, try to start that goal in the
same iteration of the startBuild() loop of run(). Otherwise no job
might be started until the next job terminates.
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(Though the `build-remote.pl' script has a gigantic race condition).
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per-machine maximum number of parallel jobs on a remote machine.
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in parallel. Hooks are more efficient: locks on output paths are
only acquired when the hook says that it is willing to accept a
build job. Hooks now work in two phases. First, they should first
tell Nix whether they are willing to accept a job. Nix guarantuees
that no two hooks will ever be in the first phase at the same time
(this simplifies the implementation of hooks, since they don't have
to perform locking (?)). Second, if they accept a job, they are
then responsible for building it (on the remote system), and copying
the result back. These can be run in parallel with other hooks and
locally executed jobs.
The implementation is a bit messy right now, though.
* The directory `distributed' shows a (hacky) example of a hook that
distributes build jobs over a set of machines listed in a
configuration file.
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