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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2012-11-09	Use a shorter Nixpkgs channel URL	Eelco Dolstra

2012-11-06	download-from-binary-cache: Try next cache if downloading a NAR fails	Eelco Dolstra

2012-11-06	Process binary caches in order of priority	Eelco Dolstra
	Binary caches can now specify a priority in their nix-cache-info file. The binary cache substituter checks caches in order of priority. This is to ensure that fast, static caches like nixos.org/binary-cache are processed before slow, dynamic caches like hydra.nixos.org.
2012-11-06	nix-push: Handle pushing a symlink	Eelco Dolstra

2012-11-06	Add an option ‘use-binary-caches’	Eelco Dolstra
	This allows disabling the use of binary caches, e.g. $ nix-build ... --option use-binary-caches false Note that $ nix-build ... --option binary-caches '' does not disable all binary caches, since the caches defined by channels will still be used.
2012-11-06	Fix "Not an ARRAY reference" error	Eelco Dolstra
	It's a mystery why this error is not triggered in the build farm (e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3265602). Ah well.
2012-10-23	nix-prefetch-url: Improve option handling	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-18	nix-push: Add a flag ‘--manifest-path’ to write the manifest to another ↵	Eelco Dolstra
	directory
2012-10-17	nix-push: Add ‘--link’ flag	Eelco Dolstra
	If ‘--link’ is given, nix-push will create hard links to the NAR files in the store, rather than copying them. This is faster and requires less disk space. However, it doesn't work if the store is on a different file system.
2012-10-17	nix-push: Only generate and copy a NAR if it doesn't already exist	Eelco Dolstra
	This prevents unnecessary and slow rebuilds of NARs that already exist in the binary cache.
2012-10-11	download-from-binary-cache: Remove duplicate entries in trustedURLs	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-03	When ‘--help’ is given, just run ‘man’ to show the manual page	Eelco Dolstra
	I.e. do what git does. I'm too lazy to keep the builtin help text up to date :-) Also add ‘--help’ to various commands that lacked it (e.g. nix-collect-garbage).
2012-10-03	nix-build: Support ‘--repair’ flag	Eelco Dolstra

2012-10-02	Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’	Eelco Dolstra
	This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available. Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old (corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available. So repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like Glibc.
2012-09-21	Style fix	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-19	Support xz compression in the download-using-manifests substituter	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-13	nix-collect-garbage: Support --dry-run	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-13	nix-profile.sh: Revert to single-user version	Eelco Dolstra
	Commit 6a214f3e06fa1c5f0a4d40e555f14d87691af297 copied most of the Nix shell initialisation code from NixOS to nix-profile.sh; however, that code assumes a multi-user install and is Linux-specific (e.g. it calls the "stat" command). So go back to the simple single-user version. Fixes #49.
2012-09-13	Put a time-to-live on negative binary cache lookups	Eelco Dolstra
	Negative lookups are purged from the DB after a day, at most once per day. However, for non-"have" lookups (e.g. all except "nix-env -qas"), negative lookups are ignored after one hour. This is to ensure that you don't have to wait a day for an operation like "nix-env -i" to start using new binaries in the cache. Should probably make this configurable.
2012-09-13	Doh	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-13	nix-channel: Add option to force fetching of manifests	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-13	Delete manifests in "nix-channel --remove" or when a binary cache is available	Eelco Dolstra

2012-09-12	Build hook: Pass the timeout to the remote builder	Eelco Dolstra
	Note that this will only work if the client has a very recent Nix version (post 15e1b2c223494ecb5efefc3ea0e3b926a6b1d7dc), otherwise the --option flag will just be ignored. Fixes #50.
2012-09-12	Compatibility fix for WWW::Curl < 4.14	Eelco Dolstra
	Older versions of WWW::Curl don't support scalar references for CURLOPT_WRITEDATA directly. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3017188
2012-09-11	Support building a derivation if some outputs are already valid	Eelco Dolstra
	This handles the chroot and build hook cases, which are easy. Supporting the non-chroot-build case will require more work (hash rewriting!). Issue #21.
2012-08-27	Disable the binary cache substituter by default for now	Eelco Dolstra

2012-08-27	Drop dependency on List::MoreUtils	Eelco Dolstra

2012-08-27	Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests	Eelco Dolstra

2012-08-24	Include the output name in the GC root link	Eelco Dolstra
	Output names are now appended to resulting GC symlinks, e.g. by nix-build. For backwards compatibility, if the output is named "out", nothing is appended. E.g. doing "nix-build -A foo" on a derivation that produces outputs "out", "bin" and "dev" will produce symlinks "./result", "./result-bin" and "./result-dev", respectively.
2012-08-01	nix-channel: Use binary caches advertised by channels	Eelco Dolstra
	Channels can now advertise a binary cache by creating a file <channel-url>/binary-cache-url. The channel unpacker puts these in its "binary-caches" subdirectory. Thus, the URLS of the binary caches for the channels added by root appear in /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/eelco/channels/binary-caches/*. The binary cache substituter reads these and adds them to the list of binary caches.
2012-08-01	download-from-binary-cache: Remove duplicate URLs	Eelco Dolstra

2012-08-01	Report substituter errors to clients of the Nix daemon	Eelco Dolstra

2012-07-31	Allow daemon users to override ‘binary-caches’	Eelco Dolstra
	For security reasons, daemon users can only specify caches that appear in the ‘binary-caches’ and ‘trusted-binary-caches’ options in nix.conf.
2012-07-30	Do some validation of URLs	Eelco Dolstra

2012-07-30	Get rid of $NIX_BINARY_CACHES	Eelco Dolstra
	You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-30	nix-install-package: Support binary caches	Eelco Dolstra
	The .nixpkg file format is extended to optionally include the URL of a binary cache, which will be used in preference to the manifest URL (which can be set to a non-existent value).
2012-07-27	Allow a binary cache to declare that it doesn't support "nix-env -qas"	Eelco Dolstra
	Querying all substitutable paths via "nix-env -qas" is potentially hard on a server, since it involves sending thousands of HEAD requests. So a binary cache must now have a meta-info file named "nix-cache-info" that specifies whether the server wants this. It also specifies the store prefix so that we don't send useless queries to a binary cache for a different store prefix.
2012-07-27	Let build.cc verify the expected hash of a substituter's output	Eelco Dolstra
	Since SubstitutionGoal::finished() in build.cc computes the hash anyway, we can prevent the inefficiency of computing the hash twice by letting the substituter tell Nix about the expected hash, which can then verify it.
2012-07-27	download-using-manifests: Don't use nix-prefetch-url	Eelco Dolstra
	Instead call curl directly and pipe it into ‘nix-store --restore’. This saves I/O and prevents creating garbage in the Nix store.
2012-07-27	Remove trailing whitespace / tabs	Eelco Dolstra

2012-07-27	download-from-binary-cache: Only use the default cache for /nix/store	Eelco Dolstra

2012-07-26	nix-push: Support generating a manifest again	Eelco Dolstra
	This makes all the tests succeed. Woohoo!
2012-07-26	nix-push: Remove the upload feature	Eelco Dolstra

2012-07-26	download-from-binary-cache: Support file://	Eelco Dolstra
	The file:// URI schema requires checking for errors in a more general way. Also, don't cache file:// lookups.
2012-07-26	Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests	Eelco Dolstra

2012-07-25	nix-profile.sh: Don't set NIX_REMOTE on single user installations	Eelco Dolstra
	Commit 6a214f3e06fa1c5f0a4d40e555f14d87691af297 reused the NixOS environment initialisation for nix-profile.sh, but this is inappropriate on systems that don't have multi-user support enabled.
2012-07-25	Subscribe to the Nixpkgs rather than NixOS channel	Eelco Dolstra

2012-07-23	nix-build: Support the ‘-’ argument to build an expression from stdin	Eelco Dolstra

2012-07-18	download-from-binary-cache: Print correct URL	Eelco Dolstra

2012-07-17	Print some debug output	Eelco Dolstra