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2009-11-04* Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra
2009-10-22* When building in a chroot, make a copy of a file if hard-linkingEelco Dolstra
fails. This is likely to happen after a `nix-store --optimise', because some files may have 32000 links (NIX-111).
2009-10-22* Remove a prototype for a function that no longer exists.Eelco Dolstra
2009-10-22* builtins.trace: in the common case that the value is a string, thenEelco Dolstra
show the string, not the ATerm, so we get `trace: bla' instead of `trace: Str("bla",[])'.
2009-10-21* Added a primop unsafeDiscardOutputDependency needed by Disnix toEelco Dolstra
pass derivation paths to a builder without actually building them.
2009-10-13* Give a useful error message when an evaluation error occurs whileEelco Dolstra
trying to upgrade a package.
2009-10-08Added optional parameter which adds -lnsl -lsocket to make the Nix package ↵Sander van der Burg
manager work on OpenSolaris
2009-10-06configure.ac: use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE to determine how to enable 64-bit file ↵Peter Simons
size support Defining -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 works on most platforms, but not on all (i.e. Solaris). Also, the Autoconf macro offers the user a switch to disable the functionality in case of problems.
2009-09-30* Support platforms that don't have O_ASYNC (e.g. OpenSolarisEelco Dolstra
apparently).
2009-09-30* OpenSolaris compatibility.Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-25(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-24* And some more.Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-24* Fix a build failure on Fedora 11. rename() needs <stdio.h>.Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-24(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-23* tryEval shouldn't catch all exceptions of type Error, since not allEelco Dolstra
of them leave the evaluator in a continuable state. Also, it should be less chatty.
2009-09-23* Don't build against BDB on Cygwin, it's been broken for unknownEelco Dolstra
reasons for a while (e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/79164).
2009-09-23* Darwin hack.Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-23* Create some state directories automatically as a convenience.Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-23 * include wait.h for WEXITSTATUSRob Vermaas
2009-09-18* Use xmllint (>= 2.7.4) for RelaxNG validation instead of Jing.Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-18* In "make init-state", ignore errors creating /nix/store. Hack toEelco Dolstra
get the Debian VM builds to work (where /nix/store is a mount point containing the store of the host).
2009-09-17(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-17(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-09-17* build-remote.pl: Pick machines in a round-robin order, rather thanEelco Dolstra
giving jobs to the first machine until it hits its job limit, then the second machine and so on. This should improve utilisation of the Hydra build farm a lot. Also take an optional speed factor into account to cause fast machines to be preferred over slower machines with a similar load.
2009-09-17* build-remote.pl: allow the system type to be a comma-separated listEelco Dolstra
of system types. Don't treat the x86_64-linux system type specially.
2009-09-15* Two primops: builtins.intersectAttrs and builtins.functionArgs.Eelco Dolstra
intersectAttrs returns the (right-biased) intersection between two attribute sets, e.g. every attribute from the second set that also exists in the first. functionArgs returns the set of attributes expected by a function. The main goal of these is to allow the elimination of most of all-packages.nix. Most package instantiations in all-packages.nix have this form: foo = import ./foo.nix { inherit a b c; }; With intersectAttrs and functionArgs, this can be written as: foo = callPackage (import ./foo.nix) { }; where callPackage = f: args: f ((builtins.intersectAttrs (builtins.functionArgs f) pkgs) // args); I.e., foo.nix is called with all attributes from "pkgs" that it actually needs (e.g., pkgs.a, pkgs.b and pkgs.c). (callPackage can do any other generic package-level stuff we might want, such as applying makeOverridable.) Of course, the automatically supplied arguments can be overriden if needed, e.g. foo = callPackage (import ./foo.nix) { c = c_version_2; }; but for the vast majority of packages, this won't be needed. The advantages are to reduce the amount of typing needed to add a dependency (from three sites to two), and to reduce the number of trivial commits to all-packages.nix. For the former, there have been two previous attempts: - Use "args: with args;" in the package's function definition. This however obscures the actual expected arguments of a function, which is very bad. - Use "{ arg1, arg2, ... }:" in the package's function definition (i.e. use the ellipis "..." to allow arbitrary additional arguments), and then call the function with all of "pkgs" as an argument. But this inhibits error detection if you call it with an misspelled (or obsolete) argument.
2009-08-25Adding tryEval builtin. It allows to catch presence of errors in an expression.Michael Raskin
2009-08-03(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-08-03(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-15* nix-build: pass the --show-trace flag.Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-14* Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries.Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-10* Leave out the collaborators / revision history page.Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-10(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-07-02* Replace newlines in table output with spaces.Eelco Dolstra
2009-06-30* Support integers and lists of strings in meta fields. This isEelco Dolstra
useful for fields like meta.maintainers, meta.priority (which can be a proper integer now) and even meta.license (if there are multiple licenses).
2009-06-30* Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).Eelco Dolstra
NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and generally aren't very useful. Ideally the builtins.throw messages should be self-contained.
2009-06-18* Highlight URLs containing "=" properly.Eelco Dolstra
2009-06-18* Attributes names in attrsets can contain dots now.Eelco Dolstra
2009-06-13* Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01Eelco Dolstra
UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00). 1 is a better choice because some programs use 0 as a special value. For instance, the Template Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file, so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs). Similarly, Maya 2008 fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be patched because it's closed source. This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar warnings.
2009-06-10* nix-build: if nix-instantiate or nix-store fails due to a signalEelco Dolstra
(e.g. out of memory or a segfault), print an error message. Otherwise the user doesn't see anything.
2009-05-26(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-05-15* Change the scoping of "inherit (e) ..." in recs so that theEelco Dolstra
attributes of the rec are in scope of `e'. This is useful in expressions such as rec { lib = import ./lib; inherit (lib) concatStrings; } It does change the semantics of expressions such as let x = {y = 1;}; in rec { x = {y = 2;}; inherit (x) y; }.y This now returns 2 instead of 1. However, no code in Nixpkgs or NixOS seems to rely on the old behaviour.
2009-05-15* Some syntactic sugar for attribute sets: allow {x.y.z = ...;} as aEelco Dolstra
shorthand for {x = {y = {z = ...;};};}. This is especially useful for NixOS configuration files, e.g. { services = { sshd = { enable = true; port = 2022; }; }; } can now be written as { services.sshd.enable = true; services.sshd.port = 2022; } However, it is currently not permitted to write { services.sshd = {enable = true;}; services.sshd.port = 2022; } as this is considered a duplicate definition of `services.sshd'.
2009-05-14* Check for duplicate attributes in fixAttrs, rather than doing aEelco Dolstra
separate traversal after parsing. Likewise, check for duplicate pattern variables right away.
2009-05-12* Allow unsafe (unspecified) comparisons between attrsets unlessEelco Dolstra
NIX_NO_UNSAFE_EQ is set, for now.
2009-05-11* Disallow equality tests between attribute sets. This was alwaysEelco Dolstra
broken, but now the evaluator checks for it to prevent Nix expressions from relying on undefined behaviour. Equality tests are implemented using a shallow pointer equality test between ATerms. However, because attribute sets are lazy and contain position information, this can give false positives. For instance, previously let y = {x = 1;}; in y == y evaluated to true, while the equivalent expression {x = 1;} == {x = 1;} evaluated to false. So disallow these tests for now. (Eventually we may want to implement deep equality tests for attribute sets, like lib.eqStrict.) * Idem: disallow comparisons between functions. * Implemented deep comparisons of lists. This had the same problem as attribute sets - the elements in the list weren't evaluated. For instance, ["xy"] == [("x" + "y")] evaluated to false. Now it works properly.
2009-05-07(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-05-07* Build a PDF version of the manual in the tarball job (it's notEelco Dolstra
included in the tarball though).
2009-05-07* Don't have a bugs section in the manual. Bugs should be kept in theEelco Dolstra
bug tracker.
2009-05-07* Produce the manual in the tarball job.Eelco Dolstra