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2006-10-02* Document the new let.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-02* Manual updates (especially how nix-build makes testing packages muchEelco Dolstra
easier; no longer need a helper expression).
2006-10-02* Manual.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-29* One-click installs.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-29* Document nix-install-package and the nixpkg file format.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-29* Manual.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-29* Manual updates, some style improvements.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-28* Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra
* Documented nix-{pack,unpack}-closure.
2006-09-27* Release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-27* Release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-26* Release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-12* "Too many links" error.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-06* Release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2006-08-23* Allow --arg in nix-env as well, example:Eelco Dolstra
$ nix-env -qa --system-filter \* --arg system '"powerpc-darwin"' to override the system from the default value (__currentSystem in all-packages.nix).
2006-08-22* Release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2006-08-21* Convert to DocBook 5.Eelco Dolstra
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-01* Ugh. Darwin's chmod insists that flags come before the modeEelco Dolstra
specification.
2006-07-25* Doh.Eelco Dolstra
2006-07-25* Support the --attr / -A flag in nix-env as well. So now we can do,Eelco Dolstra
e.g., $ nix-env -i -A subversion xorg.xorgserver The main advantage over using symbolic names is that using attribute names is unambiguous and much, much faster.
2006-07-20* Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to preventEelco Dolstra
running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-06-14(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2006-05-31* For fixed-output derivations, pass the environment variables listedEelco Dolstra
in the attribute variable `impureEnvVars' from the caller to the builder.
2006-05-08(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2006-03-15* Update copyright.Eelco Dolstra
2006-02-16* Allow the size of the GC reserved file to be specified in nix.confEelco Dolstra
through the new `gc-reserved-space' option.
2006-02-10* Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin.Eelco Dolstra
2005-12-24* Documentation fixes.Eelco Dolstra
2005-12-15* Begin release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2005-12-13* Change `referer' to `referrer' throughout. In particular, theEelco 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).
2005-10-18* Oops, that should be Berkeley DB 4.3. Reported by Gerco Ballintijn.Eelco Dolstra
2005-10-06* Document `nix-env --compare-versions'.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-28* Use "source" instead of ".".Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-22* Merge release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-16* Updated release notes.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-16* svn:ignores.Eelco Dolstra
* Add missing file to dist.
2005-09-16* Include the release notes in the manual.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-15* Force release notes in ASCII, not UTF-8.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-15* Check for w3m.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-14* Remove dead code.Eelco Dolstra
2005-09-14* Release notes in Docbook; ASCII release notes (i.e., the `NEWS'Eelco Dolstra
file) is now generated from that using `w3m' and some XSL hackery.
2005-08-01* channels -> channels-v3, catamaran -> nix.cs.uu.nl.Eelco Dolstra
2005-07-13* nix-build: default to `./default.nix' if no paths are specified.Eelco Dolstra
So when using Nix as a build tool, you can just say `nix-build' and it will build the top-level derivation defined in `default.nix'.
2005-05-09* Crazy: don't use real hashes of real components in examples, sinceEelco Dolstra
they cause Nix builds to have unnecessary retained dependences (e.g., on Subversion).
2005-04-10* Manual updates.Eelco Dolstra
2005-04-09* Document nix-channel.Eelco Dolstra
2005-04-08* Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'Eelco Dolstra
options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-07* More doc updates.Eelco Dolstra
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