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2008-02-27Added nix-reduce-build. You point it to some path you want to build and it ↵Michael Raskin
fetches whatever it can from specified computers via nix-copy-closure. NOTE: You do want to set up RSA keys or ssh-agent or something... You really do want it. It will run separate ssh instances insane number of times.
2008-02-21* checkVarDefs: don't check in closed terms, which don't haveEelco Dolstra
undefined variables by definition. This matters for the implementation of "with", which does a call to checkVarDefs to see if the body of the with has no undefined variables. (It can't be checked at parse time because you don't know which variables are in the "with" attribute set.) If we check closed terms, then we check not just the with body but also the substituted terms, which are typically very large. This is the cause of the poor nix-env performance on Nixpkgs lately. It didn't happen earlier because "with" wasn't used very often in the past. This fix improves nix-env performance roughly 60x on current Nixpkgs. nix-env -qa is down from 29.3s to 0.5s on my laptop, and nix-env -qa --out-path is down from 229s to 3.39s. Not bad for a 1-line fix :-)
2008-02-05* Fix the parsing ofEelco Dolstra
'' '${foo}' '' where the antiquote should work as expected, instead of giving the string "'${foo}'".
2008-02-05* Doh.Eelco Dolstra
2008-02-05* Regression test.Eelco Dolstra
2008-01-29* nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.Eelco Dolstra
* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of each path. * Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2008-01-20Probably fixed __exprToStringMichael Raskin
2008-01-15Fixed exportBuildReferenceGraphMichael Raskin
2008-01-04* New primop `unsafeDiscardStringContext' to get rid of stringEelco Dolstra
contexts. Needed to prevent unnecessary dependencies when building the NixOS manual.
2007-12-31* Bumped the version number to 0.12.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31* More documentation.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31* Documented a bunch of nix-store commands.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31* More release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-30* Fix the hashDerivationModulo test. I should really investigateEelco Dolstra
*why* the test failed...
2007-12-30* Documented indented string literals.Eelco Dolstra
* Release notes.
2007-12-30* Don't use "store expression", it's obsolete.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-30Added a way to include derivation with its outputs and dependencies - ↵Michael Raskin
exportBuildReferenceGraph
2007-12-14* Use strsignal if available to give better error messages forEelco Dolstra
builders that fail due to a signal.
2007-12-14* Another insane Mac OS X 10.5 compatibility hack.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-14* Mac OS X 10.5 compatibility: `echo -n foo' suddenly prints `-n foo'Eelco Dolstra
instead of `foo' without a newline (with /bin/sh, not /bin/bash, even though /bin/sh is also bash...). So use printf instead.
2007-12-13* Mac OS X 10.5 compatibility.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-12small udpateMarc Weber
2007-12-10corrected --help message for nix-store a bitMichael Raskin
2007-12-10Very basic nix vim syntax highlightingMarc Weber
2007-12-06* Syntax to escape '', ${.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-04* component -> package.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-30* Added a new kind of multi-line string literal delimited by twoEelco Dolstra
single quotes. Example (from NixOS): job = '' start on network-interfaces start script rm -f /var/run/opengl-driver ${if videoDriver == "nvidia" then "ln -sf ${nvidiaDrivers} /var/run/opengl-driver" else if cfg.driSupport then "ln -sf ${mesa} /var/run/opengl-driver" else "" } rm -f /var/log/slim.log end script ''; This style has two big advantages: - \, ' and " aren't special, only '' and ${. So you get a lot less escaping in shell scripts / configuration files in Nixpkgs/NixOS. The delimiter '' is rare in scripts (and can usually be written as ""). ${ is also fairly rare. Other delimiters such as <<...>>, {{...}} and <|...|> were also considered but this one appears to have the fewest drawbacks (thanks Martin). - Indentation is intelligently stripped so that multi-line strings can follow the nesting structure of the containing Nix expression. E.g. in the example above 6 spaces are stripped from the start of each line. This prevents unnecessary indentation in generated files (which sometimes even breaks things). See tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix for some examples.
2007-11-29* nix-env -e: support uninstalling by path, so that one can sayEelco Dolstra
$ nix-env -e $(which firefox) or $ nix-env -e /nix/store/nywzlygrkfcgz7dfmhm5xixlx1l0m60v-pan-0.132 * nix-env -i: if an argument contains a slash anywhere, treat it as a path and follow it through symlinks into the Nix store. This allows things like $ nix-build -A firefox $ nix-env -i ./result * nix-env -q/-i/-e: don't complain when the `*' selector doesn't match anything. In particular, `nix-env -q \*' doesn't fail anymore on an empty profile.
2007-11-29* Troubleshooting entry about running out of locks.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-21* New primop `readFile' to get the contents of a file as a string.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-16* Flag `--no-build-hook' to disable distributed builds.Eelco Dolstra
* queryDeriver in daemon mode: don't barf if the other side returns an empty string (which means there is no deriver).
2007-11-16* nix-store --import: add a flag --require-signature.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-15* nix-build: pass --argstr to nix-instantiate.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-15* Doh!Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-15* Don't need gc.hh.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-15* Add build-remote.pl to the Nix distribution.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-15Added possibility to specify garbage collection levels for store paths; so ↵Michael Raskin
packages can share intermediate results of compilation and GC will collect it automatically while never touching tarballs, for example.
2007-11-05* nix-prefetch-url: don't fail if /tmp/nix-prefetch-url-<pid> exists,Eelco Dolstra
instead use a counter just like we do for temporary build directories.
2007-11-01* A rule to make a PDF version of the manual.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-01* Documented some of the more obscure derivation attributes (includingEelco Dolstra
fixed-output derivations).
2007-10-31* Documented multi-user Nix.Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-29(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-29* Make the `--prebuilt-only' / `-b' option work not just for queriesEelco Dolstra
but installations/upgrades as well. So `nix-env -ub \*' will upgrade only those packages for which a substitute is available (or to be precise, it will upgrade each package to the highest version for which a substitute is available).
2007-10-29* Depend on bash instead of sh (since we use a few bashisms).Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-29* On FreeBSD, sys/mount.h needs sys/param.h.Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-27* Detect whether chroot / bind-mount support is available.Eelco Dolstra