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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.
2009-05-26(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2009-05-07* Don't have a bugs section in the manual. Bugs should be kept in theEelco Dolstra
bug tracker.
2009-04-14* Remove references to __XXX primops.Eelco Dolstra
2009-04-14* Release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2009-03-28* Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use fileEelco Dolstra
descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2009-02-05documentation for previous commitMarc Weber
2008-11-29* Install the release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-20(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-19* Patterns.Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-19(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-19* Updated the manual.Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-19* Documented some of the sharing mechanisms. Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-19* Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix).Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-19* Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of theEelco Dolstra
troubleshooting section. W00t.
2008-11-19* Release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2008-11-18* Get rid of nix-pack-closure / nix-unpack-closure, they're redundant.Eelco Dolstra
2008-08-05* Moved some stuff to the Nixpkgs manual.Eelco Dolstra
* Updated the release notes.
2008-07-11* Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,Eelco Dolstra
which is hopefully more useful. * New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-01* Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparisonEelco Dolstra
logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops. This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency is a specific needed version or falls in some version range. See tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.
2008-06-11* Updated some URLs.Eelco Dolstra
2008-06-09* Updated some URLs (did this a long time ago but forgot toEelco Dolstra
commit...).
2008-01-29* nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.Eelco Dolstra
* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of each path. * Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2007-12-31(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31* More documentation.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31* Documented a bunch of nix-store commands.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-31* More release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2007-12-30* Documented indented string literals.Eelco Dolstra
* Release notes.
2007-12-04* component -> package.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-30* Added a new kind of multi-line string literal delimited by twoEelco Dolstra
single quotes. Example (from NixOS): job = '' start on network-interfaces start script rm -f /var/run/opengl-driver ${if videoDriver == "nvidia" then "ln -sf ${nvidiaDrivers} /var/run/opengl-driver" else if cfg.driSupport then "ln -sf ${mesa} /var/run/opengl-driver" else "" } rm -f /var/log/slim.log end script ''; This style has two big advantages: - \, ' and " aren't special, only '' and ${. So you get a lot less escaping in shell scripts / configuration files in Nixpkgs/NixOS. The delimiter '' is rare in scripts (and can usually be written as ""). ${ is also fairly rare. Other delimiters such as <<...>>, {{...}} and <|...|> were also considered but this one appears to have the fewest drawbacks (thanks Martin). - Indentation is intelligently stripped so that multi-line strings can follow the nesting structure of the containing Nix expression. E.g. in the example above 6 spaces are stripped from the start of each line. This prevents unnecessary indentation in generated files (which sometimes even breaks things). See tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix for some examples.
2007-11-29* Troubleshooting entry about running out of locks.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-21* New primop `readFile' to get the contents of a file as a string.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-01* A rule to make a PDF version of the manual.Eelco Dolstra
2007-11-01* Documented some of the more obscure derivation attributes (includingEelco Dolstra
fixed-output derivations).
2007-10-31* Documented multi-user Nix.Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-29(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-29* Make the `--prebuilt-only' / `-b' option work not just for queriesEelco Dolstra
but installations/upgrades as well. So `nix-env -ub \*' will upgrade only those packages for which a substitute is available (or to be precise, it will upgrade each package to the highest version for which a substitute is available).
2007-10-27* Delete the chroot directory automatically.Eelco Dolstra
* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-24(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-23* Improved introduction (actually copied mostly from the homepage).Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-22* Document the new primops in Nix 0.11.Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-22* Move list of built-in functions to a separate file.Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-22(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2007-10-22Added comment telling about setup-hook and propagatedBuildInputsMarc Weber
2007-09-19* Manpage for nix-copy-closure.Eelco Dolstra
2007-09-17* nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then theEelco Dolstra
Nix expressions in that directory are combined into an attribute set {file1 = import file1; file2 = import file2; ...}, i.e. each Nix expression is an attribute with the file name as the attribute name. Also recurses into directories. * nix-env: removed the "--import" (-I) option which set the ~/.nix-defexpr symlink. * nix-channel: don't use "nix-env --import", instead symlink ~/.nix-defexpr/channels. So finally nix-channel --update doesn't override any default Nix expressions but combines with them. This means that you can have (say) a local Nixpkgs SVN tree and use it as a default for nix-env: $ ln -s .../path-to-nixpkgs-tree ~/.nix-defexpr/nixpkgs_svn and be subscribed to channels (including Nixpkgs) at the same time. (If there is any ambiguity, the -A flag can be used to disambiguate, e.g. "nix-env -i -A nixpkgs_svn.pan".)
2007-09-02explanation what happens when passing true / false and null values to ↵Marc Weber
derivation builders added
2007-08-12* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if weEelco Dolstra
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly. This means that it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster (NIX-95). Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with each other. The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external program to get the substitutes info. For instance, "nix-env -qas" takes a bit longer. Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid paths. On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR" on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway). * Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).