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2006-02-01	* The "S" bit should be based on the output path, not the derivation path.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-02-01	* Use Berkeley DB 4.4.20.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-02-01	* Add @bindir@.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-01-26	* Don't force a build of derivations.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-01-26	* Oops, the "I" bit in "nix-env -qas" was broken. Reported by Nicolae Vintila.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-01-19	* Don't show cycles, they're not very useful.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-01-12	* New tools nix-pack-closure and nix-unpack-closure. These provide a	Eelco Dolstra
	useful way to transfer the closure of a store path to another machine. These commands provide functionality previously possible through `nix-push --copy'. However, they are much more convenient in many situations (though possibly less efficient). Example: $ nix-pack-closure /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0 > svn.closure (on another machine:) $ nix-unpack-closure < svn.closure Note that Subversion is added to the store, but not installed into a user environment. One should do `nix-env -i /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0' for that. Another example: copy the application Azureus to the machine `scratchy' through ssh: $ nix-pack-closure $(which azureus) \| ssh scratchy nix-unpack-closure
2006-01-09	* dirOf: return "/", not "", for paths in the root directory. Fixes NIX-26.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-01-08	* Resolve all symlink components in the location of the temporary	Eelco Dolstra
	build directory (TMPDIR, i.e., /tmp). Fixes NIX-26.
2005-12-25	* More GCC 2.95 compatibility.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-25	* Hack around a GCC 2.95 bug.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-24	* GCC 2.95 compatibility.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-24	* Documentation fixes.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-23	* Added a flag `--ignore-liveness' to `nix-store --delete'. It	Eelco Dolstra
	deletes a path even if it is reachable from a root. However, it won't delete a path that still has referrers (since that would violate store invariants). Don't try this at home. It's a useful hack for recovering from certain situations in a somewhat clean way (e.g., holes in closures due to disk corruption).
2005-12-23	* Revived the old "nix-store --delete" operation that deletes the	Eelco Dolstra
	specified paths from the Nix store. However, this operation is safe: it refuses to delete anything that the garbage collector wouldn't delete.
2005-12-15	* Begin release notes.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-15	* `nix-store --gc' prints out the number of bytes freed on stdout	Eelco Dolstra
	(even when it is interrupted by a signal).
2005-12-15	* Typo.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-15	* Split the database upgrade into multiple transactions to prevent	Eelco Dolstra
	Berkeley DB from running out of locks.
2005-12-15	* Doh!	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-13	* Change `referer' to `referrer' throughout. In particular, the	Eelco Dolstra
	nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-12-12	* Automatically delete the old referers table.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-12	* Fix NIX-23: quadratic complexity in maintaining the referers	Eelco Dolstra
	mapping. The referer table is replaced by a referrer table (note spelling fix) that stores each referrer separately. That is, instead of having referer[P] = {Q_1, Q_2, Q_3, ...} we store referer[(P, Q_1)] = "" referer[(P, Q_2)] = "" referer[(P, Q_3)] = "" ... To find the referrers of P, we enumerate over the keys with a value lexicographically greater than P. This requires the referrer table to be stored as a B-Tree rather than a hash table. (The tuples (P, Q) are stored as P + null-byte + Q.) Old Nix databases are upgraded automatically to the new schema.
2005-12-11	* Add a test to demonstrate the quadratic complexity of referrer	Eelco Dolstra
	(de)registration, in particular garbage collection (NIX-23).
2005-12-09	* Use Berkeley DB 4.4's process registry feature to recover from	Eelco Dolstra
	crashed Nix instances, and toss out our own recovery code.
2005-12-08	* Apply the patch.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-08	* A patch to make the DB_REGISTER feature work when debug info is not on.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-12-06	* Require Berkeley DB 4.4.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Checkpoint after an upgrade.
2005-11-17	* FreeBSD compatibility fix.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-11-17	* "Fix" the test, since we cannot feasibly support the intended semantics.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-11-16	* Did something useful while waiting at IAD: reference scanning is now	Eelco Dolstra
	much faster.
2005-11-04	* Install signal handlers for SIGTERM and SIGHUP. This ensures that	Eelco Dolstra
	Nix is properly shut down when it receives those signals. In particular this ensures that killing the garbage collector doesn't cause a subsequent database recovery.
2005-11-04	* Memoise checkVarDefs since internally produced terms (i.e., not the	Eelco Dolstra
	result of parsing) can have very heavy sharing, causing exponential complexity if we naively recurse into them. ATerms are graphs, not trees!
2005-11-04	* Scoping bug in `with'.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-10-29	* Turn off build hooks in nix-push because of an impurity (NIX-21).	Eelco Dolstra

2005-10-29	* Repair the referers table from the references table.	Rob Vermaas

2005-10-20	* Prevent uids from being used for more than one build	Eelco Dolstra
	simultaneously. We do this using exclusive locks on uid files in /nix/var/nix/userpool, e.g., /nix/var/nix/userpool/123 for uid 123.
2005-10-19	* Oops. Fixed-output derivations were broken.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-10-18	* Oops, that should be Berkeley DB 4.3. Reported by Gerco Ballintijn.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-10-17	* Also kill all processes of the build user after the build. This is	Eelco Dolstra
	critical to prevent certain kinds of 0wnage.
2005-10-17	* Before starting a build under some uid, kill all current processes	Eelco Dolstra
	running under that uid.
2005-10-17	* Check that the build result is owned by the build user, and that	Eelco Dolstra
	nobody else has write permission to the build result. This catches most hack attempts.
2005-10-17	* Don't use FIFOs to make Nix create the output path on behalf of the	Eelco Dolstra
	builder. Instead, require that the Nix store has sticky permission (S_ISVTX); everyone can created files in the Nix store, but they cannot delete, rename or modify files created by others.
2005-10-17	* Beginning of secure multi-user Nix stores. If Nix is started as	Eelco Dolstra
	root (or setuid root), then builds will be performed under one of the users listed in the `build-users' configuration variables. This is to make it impossible to influence build results externally, allowing locally built derivations to be shared safely between users (see ASE-2005 paper). To do: only one builder should be active per build user.
2005-10-11	add @coreutils@ to correctly use coreutils to create a profile. This is needed	Armijn Hemel
	for NixOS, where we might not know our PATH in advance.
2005-10-11	* Use ATerm 2.4.2.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-10-06	* Swap the system and version comparion columns.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-10-06	* Document `nix-env --compare-versions'.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-10-06	* Only colorise if we are attached to a terminal.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-10-06	* New query option: `--compare-versions' or `-c' to compare installed	Eelco Dolstra
	versions to available versions, or vice versa. For example, the following compares installed versions to available versions: $ nix-env -qc autoconf-2.59 = 2.59 automake-1.9.4 < 1.9.6 f-spot-0.0.10 - ? firefox-1.0.4 < 1.0.7 ... I.e., there are newer versions available (in the current default Nix expression) for Automake and Firefox, but not for Autoconf, and F-Spot is missing altogether. Conversely, the available versions can be compared to the installed versions: $ nix-env -qac autoconf-2.59 = 2.59 automake-1.9.6 > 1.9.4 bash-3.0 - ? firefox-1.0.7 > 1.0.4 ... Note that bash is available but no version of it is installed. If multiple versions are available for comparison, then the highest is used. E.g., if Subversion 1.2.0 is installed, and Subversion 1.1.4 and 1.2.3 are available, then `nix-env -qc' will print `< 1.2.3', not `> 1.1.4'. If higher versions are available, the version column is printed in red (using ANSI escape codes).