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2009-11-24* Randomise the order in which we delete entries to make the collectorEelco Dolstra
less biased towards deleting paths that come alphabetically first (e.g. /nix/store/000...). This matters when using --max-freed etc.
2009-11-23(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-11-23* A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbageEelco Dolstra
collector roots that point (directly or indirectly) to the given paths.
2009-11-23* `nix-store --gc --print-roots': also print the path of the actualEelco Dolstra
root symlink, not just its target. E.g.: /nix/var/nix/profiles/system-99-link -> /nix/store/76kwf88657nq7wgk1hx3l1z5q91zb9wd-system
2009-11-23* Made the garbage collector a lot faster. It no longer computes theEelco Dolstra
complete set of live and dead paths before starting the actual deletion, but determines liveness on demand. I.e. for any path in the store, it first tries to delete all the referrers, and then the path itself. This means that the collector can start deleting paths almost immediately.
2009-11-23* Don't create /nix/var/nix/gcroots/{tmp,channels}, since they don'tEelco Dolstra
seem to be used anymore.
2009-11-20* Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. ManyEelco Dolstra
(Linux) machines no longer maintain the atime because it's too expensive, and on the machines where --use-atime is useful (like the buildfarm), reading the atimes on the entire Nix store takes way too much time to make it practical.
2009-11-17* Don't pass -K. It should really inherit the setting of the callingEelco Dolstra
Nix though.
2009-11-13* In nix-pull/nix-channel, create the manifests directory if itEelco Dolstra
doesn't exist. The Debian packages don't include the manifests directory, so nix-channel would silently skip doing a nix-pull, resulting in everything being built from source. Thanks to Juan Pedro Bolívar Puente.
2009-11-06* Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases.Eelco Dolstra
2009-11-05* Version bump.Eelco Dolstra
2009-11-05(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-11-05* Build on Karmic.Eelco Dolstra
2009-11-05* The Nix .deb package depends on curl.Eelco Dolstra
2009-11-05* Various updates.Eelco Dolstra
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).