Age | Commit message (Collapse) | Author | |
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2005-04-07 | * More manual updates. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-04-07 | * Build hook documentation. | Eelco Dolstra | |
* nix-store options. | |||
2005-04-07 | * GC docs. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-04-05 | * Manual updates. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-04-05 | * Some GC documentation. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-04-05 | * Use `--nonet' flag. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-04-01 | * Added a glossary to the manual. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-03-17 | * Manual updates. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-03-16 | * Documented common environment variables. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-03-16 | * Update the user environments figure to show multiple profiles and | Eelco Dolstra | |
users. * Change to base-32 hashes. | |||
2005-03-16 | * Automake 1.9 compatibility. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-03-15 | * Some more updates. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-03-15 | * XInclude all the way. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-03-15 | * Manual updates. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2005-01-12 | * NEWS and manual update for release 0.7. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-12-17 | * Typo: genericBuilder -> genericBuild. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-14 | * More manual fixes. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-14 | * Manual fixes. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-12 | * Document --delete-generations and other nix-env options. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-12 | * Document --eval-only and --parse-only options in nix-instantiate. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-09 | * Typos. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-07 | * Documented the standard environment, including the generic builder. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-07 | * Everything you always wanted to know about functions and derivations | Eelco Dolstra | |
but were afraid to ask. | |||
2004-11-07 | * Drop the grammar appendix. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-07 | * Operators, comments. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-07 | * Lets, inheritance, assertions. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-05 | * Typo fix. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-05 | * Generic builders. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-05 | * Start of language reference. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-05 | * Finished GNU Hello walkthrough. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-04 | * Manual: writing Nix expressions. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-02 | * chapter -> appendix. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-01 | * Section about channels. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-01 | * Section about garbage collection. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-11-01 | * Profiles section. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-10-31 | * Document setuid Nix installs. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-10-31 | * Add figures to `make install' / `make dist'. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-10-29 | * Began adding build farm docs. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-10-25 | * New language feature: with expressions. | Eelco Dolstra | |
The expression `with E1; E2' evaluates to E2 with all bindings in the attribute set E1 substituted. E.g., with {x = 123;}; x evaluates to 123. That is, the attribute set E1 is in scope in E2. This is particularly useful when importing files containing lots definitions. E.g., instead of let { inherit (import ./foo.nix) a b c d e f; body = ... a ... f ...; } we can now say with import ./foo.nix; ... a ... f ... I.e., we don't have to say what variables should be brought into scope. | |||
2004-10-18 | * Instead of — use the actual Unicode character. By the way, to | Eelco Dolstra | |
edit the manual, you should have something like (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.xml\\>" 'utf-8) in your ~/.emacs. | |||
2004-10-14 | * Rewrite of package management stuff. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-10-14 | * Split overview chapter into a chapter on package management and a | Eelco Dolstra | |
chapter on writing Nix expressions. | |||
2004-10-14 | * Unindent. | Eelco Dolstra | |
2004-10-13 | * Updated the quick start section. Use channels instead of | Eelco Dolstra | |
downloading Nix expressions and calling nix-pull. This is so user-friendly that even a Mac user can do it! :-) | |||
2004-10-13 | * Better introduction. | Eelco Dolstra | |
* Set notes in a different color than warnings. | |||
2004-09-09 | * Use setre[ug]id() instead of setres[ug]id(), since the former is | Eelco Dolstra | |
more common than the latter (which exists only on Linux and FreeBSD). We don't really care about dropping the saved IDs since there apparently is no way to quiry them in any case, so it can't influence the build (unlike the effective IDs which are checked by Perl for instance). | |||
2004-08-25 | * `--min-age' flag in nix-store and nix-collect-garbage to only delete | Eelco Dolstra | |
unreachable paths that haven't been used for N hours. For instance, `nix-collect-garbage --min-age 168' only deletes paths that haven't been accessed in the last week. This is useful for instance in the build farm where many derivations can be shared between consecutive builds, and we wouldn't want a garbage collect to throw them all away. We could of course register them as roots, but then we'd to unregister them at some point, which would be a pain to manage. The `--min-age' flag gives us a sort of MRU caching scheme. BUG: this really shouldn't be in gc.cc since that violates mechanism/policy separation. | |||
2004-08-25 | * `nix-collect-garbage' now actually performs a garbage collection, it | Eelco Dolstra | |
doesn't just print the set of paths that should be deleted. So there is no more need to pipe the result into `nix-store --delete' (which doesn't even exist anymore). | |||
2004-08-18 | * The default verbosity level of all Nix commands is now lvlInfo. | Eelco Dolstra | |
* Builder output is written to standard error by default. * The option `-B' is gone. * The option `-Q' suppresses builder output. The result of this is that most Nix invocations shouldn't need any flags w.r.t. logging. | |||
2004-06-28 | * By default, `nix-env -i' now deletes previously installed | Eelco Dolstra | |
derivations with names matching the derivations being installed. The option `--preserve-installed / -P' overrides this behaviour. |