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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2006-02-24	* Canonicalise manifests a bit by sorting them.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-03-18	* Ignore hash conflicts in gc-releases.pl.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-03-14	* Set NAR name to content hash; previous nix-push names were not	Eelco Dolstra
	unique. * Drop `hashAlgo' attribute in manifests; prefix hashes with the hash algorithm instead.
2005-02-25	* Add a version number to manifests.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-02-24	* Properly specify the hash algorithm in the manifests, and read it	Eelco Dolstra
	too. * Change the default hash for nix-prefetch-url back to md5, since that's what we use in Nixpkgs (for now; a birthday attack is rather unlikely there).
2005-02-09	* Propagate the deriver of a path through the substitute mechanism.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Removed some dead code (successor stuff) from nix-push. * Updated terminology in the tests (store expr -> drv path). * Check that the deriver is set properly in the tests.
2005-02-08	* Better error reporting in readmanifest.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Use force flag in `mv' to prevent silly interactive questions (this happens with shared Nix stores).
2005-01-25	* Really fix the substitute mechanism, i.e., ensure the closure	Eelco Dolstra
	invariant by registering references through the manifest. * Added a test for nix-pull.
2004-12-29	* Propagate patches from the source distribution to the destination	Eelco Dolstra
	distribution insofar they are applicable.
2004-12-29	* Atomic file replacement is good.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-12-29	* A utility to generate patches between releases based on their	Eelco Dolstra
	manifests.
2004-12-28	* Added a function to write manifests.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-12-20	* Place manifests in /nix/var/nix/manifests.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Use the new patch downloader.
2004-12-13	* Patch deployment. `download.pl' (intended to be used in the	Eelco Dolstra
	substitute mechanism) creates a store path by downloading full NAR archives and/or patches specified in the available manifests. Any combination of present paths, full downloads, and patches can be used to construct the target path. In particular, patches can be chained in sequence; and full NAR archives of the target path can be omitted (i.e., patch-only deployment is possible). A shortest path algorithm is used to find the smallest set of files to be downloaded (the edge weights are currently file sizes, but one can imagine taking the network speed to the various source into account). Patches are binary deltas between two store paths. To be precise, they are the output of the `bsdiff' program applied to the NAR archives obtained by dumping (`nix-store --dump') the two store paths. The advantage of diff'ing NAR archives (and not, say, doing file-by-file diffs) is that file renames/moves are handled automatically. The disadvantage is that we cannot optimise creation of unchanged files (by hard-linking).
2004-10-20	* Show error messages from curl.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-06-21	* Adapted nix-pull to use the new substitute mechanism.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-04-06	* Switched from wget to curl.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Made the dependencies on bzip2 and the shell explicit.
2004-02-10	* Lots of manual stuff. Reference pages for most Nix commands.	Eelco Dolstra
	* nix-pull now requires the full url to the manifest, i.e., `/MANIFEST/' is no longer automatically appended. * nix-prefetch-url works again.
2004-01-16	* Doh! Edited `readmanifest.pm' instead of `readmanifest.pm.in'.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-12-05	* Refactoring: put the manifest-reading code in a separate file.	Eelco Dolstra