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2003-04-08* `Fix' is a high-level descriptor instantiator for Nix. It replacesEelco Dolstra
nix-instantiate.
2003-04-06* Better installation: make directories, create database.Eelco Dolstra
* Fixed the register script.
2003-04-06* The latest version of Pan.Eelco Dolstra
2003-04-06* Delete source after building.Eelco Dolstra
2003-04-04* Autoconf / Automake configuration and building.Eelco Dolstra
2003-04-04* Minor refactoring: use iterators to process arguments.Eelco Dolstra
2003-04-02* Script to register pre-built packages.Eelco Dolstra
2003-04-02* Importing and exporting of pre-built packages.Eelco Dolstra
2003-04-01* Use ATerms for Nix descriptors.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-31* Nix descriptor for Subversion.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-28* Check for collissions.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-28* Don't fork in `nix run'.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-28* Allow arguments to be passed to programs in `nix run'.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-25* Added a script nix-activate which builds a list of "activated"Eelco Dolstra
packages (i.e., the packages that should appear in the user's $PATH, and so on). Based on this list, the script nix-populate creates a hierarchy of symlinks to the relevant files in those packages (e.g., for pkg/bin and pkg/lib). A nice property of nix-populate is that on each run it creates a *new* tree, rather than updating the old one. It then atomically switches over to the new tree. This allows atomic upgrades or rollbacks on the set of activated packages.
2003-03-25* Integrate hash into instantiated descriptor file names.Eelco Dolstra
* Use MD5::Digest.
2003-03-24* For efficiency: md5 integrated into nix.Eelco Dolstra
* Command `nix ensure' which is like `nix getpkg' except that if the has refers to a run action it will just ensure that the imports are there. * Command `nix closure' to print out the closure of the set of descriptors under the import relation, starting at a set of roots. This can be used for garbage collection (e.g., given a list of `activated' packages, we can delete all packages not reachable from those). * Command `nix graph' to print out a Dot graph of the dependency graph. * `nix-addroot' adds a root for the (unimplemented) garbage collector.
2003-03-24* Typo fix.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-24* Descriptors now have a "system" field specifying the platform thatEelco Dolstra
the build or run action should be perfomed on. This ensures that descriptors have different hashes on different platforms.
2003-03-24* Refactoring.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-23* A descriptor for running the Pan newsreader.Eelco Dolstra
* Added descriptors for gtkspell and its support package pspell. Gtkspell is an optional dependency of Pan, so we should add the ability to nix-instantiate to instantiate variants of a package based on a selection of features.
2003-03-23* A command to run programs in Nix packages, that is, to execute a runEelco Dolstra
action. Run actions are described by uniquely hashed descriptors, just like build actions. Therefore run actions can have dependencies, but these need not be the same as the build time dependencies (e.g., at runtime we can link against a different version of a dynamic library). Example: nix run 31d6bf4c171282367065e0deecd7c579 will run the Pan 0.13.91 newsreader with gtkspell support.
2003-03-21* Added a command to list installed packages.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-21* Added a command to verify the consistency of the database.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-21* Forgot to commit this one.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-21* Fetch sources from the network.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-21* Renamed dist -> build.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-20* Descriptor templates for the Pan newsreader and all itsEelco Dolstra
dependencies.
2003-03-20* nix-instantiate now instantiantes the closure of the set ofEelco Dolstra
descriptor templates under the import relation. I.e., we can now say: nix-instantiate outdir foo.nix which will create descriptors for foo.nix and all imported packages in outdir/.
2003-03-20* Various updates.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-20* A script to instantiate package descriptors from templates.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-14* Improved Nix. Resources (package descriptors and other sourceEelco Dolstra
files) are now referenced using their cryptographic hashes. This ensures that if two package descriptors have the same contents, then they describe the same package. This property is not as trivial as it sounds: generally import relations cause this property not to hold w.r.t. temporality. But since imports also use hashes to reference other packages, equality follows by induction.
2003-03-13* Converted to C++.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-13* Initial version of nix.Eelco Dolstra
2003-03-12* And a trunk to go along with that.Eelco Dolstra