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2014-04-25trunk -> masterEelco Dolstra
2014-04-08Update installation instructionsEelco Dolstra
2014-02-10Binary tarball: Automatically create /nixEelco Dolstra
The tarball can now be unpacked anywhere. The installation script uses "sudo" to create /nix if it doesn't exist. It also fetches the nixpkgs-unstable channel.
2013-11-14Remove nix-setuid-helperEelco Dolstra
AFAIK, nobody uses it, it's not maintained, and it has no tests.
2013-10-24Manual: Fix broken URLsEelco Dolstra
Fixes #172.
2013-05-29.bashrc -> .profileEelco Dolstra
2013-03-14Require Bison 2.6Eelco Dolstra
2012-10-03Rename nix-worker to nix-daemonEelco Dolstra
2012-09-25Document that Nix requires GNU MakeEelco Dolstra
Fixes #44.
2012-05-24Clean up the installation section; document the generic binary tarballsEelco Dolstra
2012-05-11Manual updatesEelco Dolstra
2012-04-08Nix is on github nowShea Levy
2012-03-18Drop the externals directoryEelco Dolstra
Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed. SQLite is detected using pkg-config. We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so depending on SQLite is not a big problem. The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2011-11-03* The Nix configuration file is usually /etc/nix/nix.conf.Eelco Dolstra
2011-11-02* Fix permission on /nix/store in the manual for multi-user installsEelco Dolstra
(reported by Silvio Frischknecht).
2011-03-15* Fix a bug in the documentation (reported by Olexiy Buyanskyy,Eelco Dolstra
Nix/215).
2010-10-29* Document Boehm GC support.Eelco Dolstra
2010-04-19* Drop the dependency on the ATerm library.Eelco Dolstra
2010-02-12* Typo. Reported by Peter Koppstein.Eelco Dolstra
2009-11-06* Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases.Eelco Dolstra
2009-11-05* Various updates.Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-19* Documented some of the sharing mechanisms. Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-19* Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of theEelco Dolstra
troubleshooting section. W00t.
2008-06-09* Updated some URLs (did this a long time ago but forgot toEelco Dolstra
commit...).
2007-12-04* component -> package.Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-31* Documented multi-user Nix.Eelco Dolstra
2007-05-16(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-04-16* Updated dependency information.Eelco Dolstra
2007-02-05* Compatibility with docbook5-xsl.Eelco Dolstra
2007-01-15* Handle multiple indirect symlinks when loading a Nix expression.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-04* Weird.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-29* Manual.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-29* Manual updates, some style improvements.Eelco Dolstra
2006-08-21* Convert to DocBook 5.Eelco Dolstra
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2005-12-24* Documentation fixes.Eelco Dolstra
2005-10-18* Oops, that should be Berkeley DB 4.3. Reported by Gerco Ballintijn.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-16* Update the user environments figure to show multiple profiles andEelco Dolstra
users. * Change to base-32 hashes.
2004-11-01* Profiles section.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-31* Document setuid Nix installs.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-14* Unindent.Eelco Dolstra
2004-02-06* Improvements to profiles. Generations are now per-profile, e.g.,Eelco Dolstra
default -> default-94-link default-82-link -> /nix/store/cc4480... default-83-link -> /nix/store/caeec8... ... default-94-link -> /nix/store/2896ca... experimental -> experimental-2-link experimental-1-link -> /nix/store/cc4480... experimental-2-link -> /nix/store/a3148f... * `--profile' / `-p' -> `--switch-profile' / `-S' * `--link' / `-l' -> `--profile' / `-p' * The default profile is stored in $prefix/var/nix/profiles. $prefix/var/nix/links is gone. Profiles can be stored anywhere. * The current profile is now referenced from ~/.nix-profile, not ~/.nix-userenv. * The roots to the garbage collector now have extension `.gcroot', not `.id'.
2004-01-30* Detect flex and bison; updated the manual.Eelco Dolstra
2004-01-20* Nix Quick Start guide.Eelco Dolstra
2004-01-20* Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra
* Updated the README. Now it just refers to the manual.
2003-11-27* Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra
2003-11-26* Updates.Eelco Dolstra
2003-11-26* Updates.Eelco Dolstra
2003-11-26* Refactoring.Eelco Dolstra
* Convert tabs to spaces.
2003-08-13* Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra
2003-08-13* Split the book.xml into several xml files.Eelco Dolstra