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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2012-10-17	nix-push: Add ‘--link’ flag	Eelco Dolstra
	If ‘--link’ is given, nix-push will create hard links to the NAR files in the store, rather than copying them. This is faster and requires less disk space. However, it doesn't work if the store is on a different file system.
2012-10-17	nix-push: Only generate and copy a NAR if it doesn't already exist	Eelco Dolstra
	This prevents unnecessary and slow rebuilds of NARs that already exist in the binary cache.
2012-10-12	Typo	Eelco Dolstra
	Reported by Shea.
2012-10-11	download-from-binary-cache: Remove duplicate entries in trustedURLs	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-11	Shorten the names of temporary build directories	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-10	Out-of-tree building of perl modules.	Mats Erik Andersson

2012-10-04	getDerivation(): Don't always quietly ignore assertion failure	Eelco Dolstra
	Ignoring assertion failures makes some sense for nix-env -qa, but not for nix-instantiate/nix-build or hydra-eval-jobs.
2012-10-04	XML writer: flush after newlines	Eelco Dolstra
	This is useful for hydra-eval-jobs.
2012-10-04	Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists	Eelco Dolstra
	http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3124130
2012-10-04	nix-store --verify: Continue on errors	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-04	Fix regular expression	Eelco Dolstra
	http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3123177
2012-10-03	Fix the tarball build	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-03	Fix the test	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-03	Rename nix-worker to nix-daemon	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-03	Drop support for running nix-worker in "slave" mode	Eelco Dolstra
	AFAIK nobody uses this, setuid binaries are evil, and there is no good reason why people can't just run the daemon.
2012-10-03	Remove bin2c	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-03	When ‘--help’ is given, just run ‘man’ to show the manual page	Eelco Dolstra
	I.e. do what git does. I'm too lazy to keep the builtin help text up to date :-) Also add ‘--help’ to various commands that lacked it (e.g. nix-collect-garbage).
2012-10-03	Document ‘--repair’	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-03	nix-env: Support ‘--repair’ flag	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-03	nix-build: Support ‘--repair’ flag	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-03	Add a ‘--repair’ flag to nix-instantiate	Eelco Dolstra
	This allows repairing corrupted derivations and other source files.
2012-10-03	Handle repairing paths that are in build-chroot-dirs	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-03	When repairing a derivation, check and repair the entire output closure	Eelco Dolstra
	If we find a corrupted path in the output closure, we rebuild the derivation that produced that particular path.
2012-10-02	Add a --repair flag to ‘nix-store -r’ to repair derivation outputs	Eelco Dolstra
	With this flag, if any valid derivation output is missing or corrupt, it will be recreated by using a substitute if available, or by rebuilding the derivation. The latter may use hash rewriting if chroots are not available.
2012-10-02	nix-store -r: Get rid of an unnecessary call to buildPaths/ensurePaths	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-02	nix-store --verify: Add an option ‘--repair’ to repair all ↵	Eelco Dolstra
	missing/corrupt paths Also, return a non-zero exit code if errors remain after verifying/repairing.
2012-10-02	Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’	Eelco Dolstra
	This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available. Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old (corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available. So repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like Glibc.
2012-09-28	Handle octal escapes in /proc/self/mountinfo	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-28	Print a more descriptive error message if setting up the build environment fails	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-27	Allow dashes in identifiers	Eelco Dolstra
	In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a package is usually equal to the package name. However, this doesn't work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common. The convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib" becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying. So now dashes are valid in variable / attribute names, allowing you to write: dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { }; and buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ]; Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this is unambiguous.
2012-09-25	Add "on Linux" qualifier	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-25	Make the store writable before creating /nix/store/.links	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-25	Document that Nix requires GNU Make	Eelco Dolstra
	Fixes #44.
2012-09-25	Update release notes	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-25	Merge branch 'readonly-store'	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-25	Include <sys/types.h> for off_t	Eelco Dolstra
	Reported by "gio" on IRC.
2012-09-21	Style fix	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-19	Support xz compression in the download-using-manifests substituter	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-19	Remove setting of the immutable bit	Eelco Dolstra
	Using the immutable bit is problematic, especially in conjunction with store optimisation. For instance, if the garbage collector deletes a file, it has to clear its immutable bit, but if the file has additional hard links, we can't set the bit afterwards because we don't know the remaining paths. So now that we support having the entire Nix store as a read-only mount, we may as well drop the immutable bit. Unfortunately, we have to keep the code to clear the immutable bit for backwards compatibility.
2012-09-19	Support having /nix/store as a read-only bind mount	Eelco Dolstra
	It turns out that the immutable bit doesn't work all that well. A better way is to make the entire Nix store a read-only bind mount, i.e. by doing $ mount --bind /nix/store /nix/store $ mount -o remount,ro,bind /nix/store (This would typically done in an early boot script, before anything from /nix/store is used.) Since Nix needs to be able to write to the Nix store, it now detects if /nix/store is a read-only bind mount and then makes it writable in a private mount namespace.
2012-09-19	Templatise tokenizeString()	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-18	Keep build directory if not all expected outputs were produced	Eelco Dolstra
	Fixes issue #123 in Nixpkgs.
2012-09-14	Test whether GNU tar understands --warning=no-timestamp	Eelco Dolstra
	http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3031618
2012-09-14	Fix test	Eelco Dolstra
	http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3031382
2012-09-13	nix-collect-garbage: Support --dry-run	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-13	nix-env --delete-generations: Support --dry-run flag	Eelco Dolstra
	Fixes #43.
2012-09-13	Add a test for nix-profile.sh	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-13	nix-profile.sh: Revert to single-user version	Eelco Dolstra
	Commit 6a214f3e06fa1c5f0a4d40e555f14d87691af297 copied most of the Nix shell initialisation code from NixOS to nix-profile.sh; however, that code assumes a multi-user install and is Linux-specific (e.g. it calls the "stat" command). So go back to the simple single-user version. Fixes #49.
2012-09-13	Remove double Fedora release suffix	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-13	Put a time-to-live on negative binary cache lookups	Eelco Dolstra
	Negative lookups are purged from the DB after a day, at most once per day. However, for non-"have" lookups (e.g. all except "nix-env -qas"), negative lookups are ignored after one hour. This is to ensure that you don't have to wait a day for an operation like "nix-env -i" to start using new binaries in the cache. Should probably make this configurable.