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2007-08-09	* nix-pull: using nix-prefetch-url (so that we get caching for free),	Eelco Dolstra
	and store the manifests in the Nix store. (So now /nix/var/nix/manifests/ just contains symlinks to the store and is searched for GC roots.)
2006-11-29	* Remove --enable-setuid, --with-nix-user and --with-nix-group.	Eelco Dolstra
	Rather, setuid support is now always compiled in (at least on platforms that have the setresuid system call, e.g., Linux and FreeBSD), but it must enabled by chowning/chmodding the Nix binaries.
2006-05-12	* Support for srcdir != builddir (NIX-41).	Eelco Dolstra

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.
2005-10-05	* Update NEWS in the root directory properly.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-09-15	* Check for w3m.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-02-17	* Put build logs in $prefix/var/nix/log/drvs/.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-02-01	* Added a global configuration file (/nix/etc/nix/nix.conf). It	Eelco Dolstra
	contains options for the garbage collector right now, but other stuff can be added here later.
2005-01-31	* Start of concurrent garbage collection. Processes write temporary	Eelco Dolstra
	roots to a per-process temporary file in /nix/var/nix/temproots while holding a write lock on that file. The garbage collector acquires read locks on all those files, thus blocking further progress in other Nix processes, and reads the sets of temporary roots.
2004-12-16	* Remove `prebuilts.conf' file, it's not like anybody was using it.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Add /nix/var/nix/manifests directory.
2004-10-25	* Revert r1594 - it didn't solve the problem. Instead add	Eelco Dolstra
	svn-revision to distributions, which should fix it.
2004-10-20	* Register channels as roots of the garbage collector (in	Eelco Dolstra
	$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/channels). * In setuid installations, create gcroots/tmp and gcroots/channels group-writable.
2004-08-20	* Setuid support for sharing a Nix installation between multiple	Eelco Dolstra
	users. If the configure flag `--enable-setuid' is used, the Nix programs nix-env, nix-store, etc. are installed with the setuid bit turned on so that they are executed as the user and group specified by `--with-nix-user=USER' and `--with-nix-group=GROUP', respectively (with defaults `nix' and `nix'). The setuid programs drop all special privileges if they are executed by a user who is not a member of the Nix group. The setuid feature is a quick hack to enable sharing of a Nix installation between users who trust each other. It is not generally secure, since any user in the Nix group can modify (by building an appropriate derivation) any object in the store, and for instance inject trojans into binaries used by other users. The setuid programs are owned by root, not the Nix user. This is because on Unix normal users cannot change the real uid, only the effective uid. Many programs don't work properly when the real uid differs from the effective uid. For instance, Perl will turn on taint mode. However, the setuid programs drop all root privileges immediately, changing all uids and gids to the Nix user and group.
2004-07-30	* Doh!	Eelco Dolstra

2004-07-30	* Use ATerm 2.2.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Include bootstrap.sh in dist.
2004-06-04	* A Nix mode for Emacs.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-05-04	* Allow the location of the store etc. to be specified using	Eelco Dolstra
	environment variables. * Started adding some automatic tests. * Do a `make check' when building RPMs.
2004-04-22	* Look for GC roots in @localstatedir@/nix/gcroots.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-04-22	* Don't create $(localstatedir)/nix/profiles if --disable-init-state	Eelco Dolstra
	is specified.
2004-04-21	* Do initialise state (the DB etc.) when doing a `make install',	Eelco Dolstra
	unless `--disable-init-state' is passed to configure.
2004-02-16	* Allow linking against an external Berkeley DB / ATerm library.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-01-22	* Explicitly compute the release name.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-01-02	* Generate RPM spec file.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-01-02	* Add $prefix/store to the RPM.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Allow extra flags to be passed to RPM.
2003-12-30	* RPM spec file.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Respect DESTDIR variable.
2003-10-20	* Finished refactoring the tree.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-09-11	* Removed references to char_traits so that boost/format also works on	Eelco Dolstra
	GCC 2.95.
2003-08-12	* Generate man pages from the manual.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-07-23	* Incorporated Berkeley DB and ATerm into the source tree.	Eelco Dolstra
	* `make dist'.
2003-07-10	* Get `nix-push' working again. It now uses Nix/Fix to create Nix	Eelco Dolstra
	archives (using the package in corepkgs/nar). * queryPathByHash -> expandHash, and it takes an argument specifying the target path (which may be empty). * Install the core Fix packages in $prefix/share/fix. TODO: bootstrap Nix and install Nix as a Fix package.
2003-04-09	* We no longer use nix-populate standalone, rather we use it as a	Eelco Dolstra
	build action for `system' packages (like system.fix) that have dependencies on all packages we want to activate. So the command sequence to switch to a new activation configuration of the system would be: $ fix -i .../fixdescriptors/system.fix ... system.fix -> 89cf4713b37cc66989304abeb9ea189f $ nix-switch 89cf4713b37cc66989304abeb9ea189f * A nix-profile.sh script that can be included in .bashrc.
2003-04-04	* Autoconf / Automake configuration and building.	Eelco Dolstra