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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2016-05-31	Fix reference to $NIX_LINK	Eelco Dolstra

2016-05-18	Fix `??` in Nix warning message	Gabriel Gonzalez
	Nix sometimes outputs a warning message like this: ``` directory /nix does not exist; creating it by running ‘?? using sudo ``` ... when it really meant to output something that looked like this: ``` directory /nix does not exist; creating it by running 'mkdir -m 0755 /nix && chown gabriel /nix' using sudo ``` The reason why is due to some bizarre behavior in Bash where it will translate anything of the form `$x’` to `??`, leading to the incorrect warning message. I don't know what is the origin of this Bash behavior, but the easiest fix is to just use ASCII quotes instead of unicode quotes.
2016-04-14	install-nix-from-closure: Don't run nix-store --verify	Eelco Dolstra
	Verification is slow. Also, we really shouldn't advise users to nuke their store.
2016-04-10	Remove information about nix-store --optimise	Wout Mertens

2016-04-10	Always verify nix store on install	wmertens
	Just wasted a couple hours chasing shadows because the nix store got corrupted and there was no indication of that anywhere. Since an install is one-time only, might as well verify. Optimization showed that the copied files aren't read-only; fixed that as well. Also, use /bin/sh since there's a good chance that this script will be run on systems without /bin/bash
2016-02-19	Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/stepcut/nix	Shea Levy

2016-02-10	Check shell profile is writeable before modifying	Alex Cruice
	The `set -e` at the top of the script causes the installation to fail to complete if the shell profile is not writeable. Checking file existence only is not enough.
2015-12-06	Clarify installation error message that is shown when /nix/store exists but ↵	Jeremy Shaw
	is not writable by the user
2015-06-08	Update cacert locations	Eelco Dolstra

2015-02-11	Nix install script failed when "cd" printed to stdout.	Jeff Ramnani
	In some cases the bash builtin command "cd" can print the variable $CWD to stdout. This caused the install script to fail while copying files because the source path was wrong. Fixes #476.
2014-12-13	Install cacert before running nix-channel	Eelco Dolstra
	Also, make it more robust against incorrent SSL_CERT_FILE values.
2014-12-10	Include cacert in the binary tarball	Eelco Dolstra
	This prevents having to fetch Nixpkgs or cacert over http.
2014-12-10	Always use https to fetch the Nixpkgs channel	Eelco Dolstra

2014-11-18	Add a test for the binary tarball installer	Eelco Dolstra

2014-08-20	Use proper quotes everywhere	Eelco Dolstra

2014-08-07	install-nix-from-closure.sh: Use https channel if possible	Eelco Dolstra

2014-07-29	install-nix-from-closure.sh: Install cacert	Eelco Dolstra

2014-04-10	Don't barf when installing as root	Eelco Dolstra

2014-02-26	Installer: Handle Darwin	Eelco Dolstra
	"cp -r" doesn't copy symlinks properly on Darwin, but "cp -R" does. Fixes #215.
2014-02-10	Force use of Bash	Eelco Dolstra
	"echo -n" doesn't work with /bin/sh on Darwin.
2014-02-10	Binary tarball: Automatically create /nix	Eelco 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.
2014-02-10	Binary tarball: Automatically fetch the Nixpkgs channel	Eelco Dolstra

2012-05-22	Generate binary tarballs for installing Nix	Eelco Dolstra
	For several platforms we don't currently have "native" Nix packages (e.g. Mac OS X and FreeBSD). This provides the next best thing: a tarball containing the closure of Nix, plus a simple script "nix-finish-install" that initialises the Nix database, registers the paths in the closure as valid, and runs "nix-env -i /path/to/nix" to initialise the user profile. The tarball must be unpacked in the root directory. It creates /nix/store/... and /usr/bin/nix-finish-install. Typical installation is as follows: $ cd / $ tar xvf /path/to/nix-1.1pre1234_abcdef-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2 $ nix-finish-install (if necessary add ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh to the shell login scripts) After this, /usr/bin/nix-finish-install can be deleted, if desired. The downside to the binary tarball is that it's pretty big (~55 MiB for x86_64-linux).