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2005-03-18* Ignore hash conflicts in gc-releases.pl.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-15* Use SHA-256 for nix-push.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-14* Idem.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-14* Pass `--base32' unless using MD5.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-14* Parse new hash format properly.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-14* Print SHA-1 hashes in base-32 by default.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-14* Prefix hash algorithm in patch generator too.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-14* Set NAR name to content hash; previous nix-push names were notEelco Dolstra
unique. * Drop `hashAlgo' attribute in manifests; prefix hashes with the hash algorithm instead.
2005-03-14* Script to garbage collect nix-push directories. It prints out allEelco Dolstra
file names in the directory not included in any of the manifests specified on the command line.
2005-03-11* nix-install-package: install outPath, not drvPath, for now.Eelco Dolstra
* nix-prefecth-url: print out in base-16.
2005-03-03* Channel fix.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-01* Doh!Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-01* Add missing file to dist.Eelco Dolstra
2005-03-01* Use a weighted use heuristic to disambiguate between multipleEelco Dolstra
occurances of a component. If the shortest path distance between a component P and Q in the referers graph is D, then the contribution of Q to the use of P is 1 / R^D, where R >= 1, typically 2. This expresses that distant indirect uses are less important than nearby uses. For instance, this can disambiguate between the bootstrap GCC in Nixpkgs and the GCC of the final stdenv (the former has more uses, but they are further away), and between the GCC of the final stdenv and the GCC+G77 build (the latter has very few uses).
2005-02-28* Added a disambiguation heuristic: if two components have the sameEelco Dolstra
name but differ to much in sice (by more than a factor of 3), then never generate a patch.
2005-02-25* Add a version number to manifests.Eelco Dolstra
2005-02-25* Pause if errors occur.Eelco Dolstra
2005-02-25* nix-install-package: Use the new (trivial) package format generatedEelco Dolstra
by the build farm. See e.g., http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nixpkgs-0.8/nixpkgs-0.7pre2302/; the user can click on packages, and they will be installed (assuming the `application/nix-package' MIME type has been associated with `nix-install-package'). Nix expressions are no longer involved: a "package" is just a pointer to a manifest, and the top-level store derivation to be added to the user environment. This makes these packages independent from Nix expression evolution. Note that we install the store derivation ($drvPath), not the resulting output path ($outPath). This is equivalent, except that installing the derivation maintains the back-link from the output path to the derivation that built it. This is useful for maintenance. * Automatically re-exec in an xterm so that the user sees something when `nix-install-package' is run from a browser.
2005-02-24* Properly specify the hash algorithm in the manifests, and read itEelco 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).
2005-02-24* (Unnecessary) refactoring.Eelco Dolstra
2005-02-22* Support for fixed-output hashes over directory trees (i.e., over theEelco Dolstra
NAR dump of the path).
2005-02-17* Fix nix-channel.Eelco Dolstra
* Add `--help' flag; fixes NIX-5. * Add `--remove' flag; fixes NIX-6. * Add `--list' flag.
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* Set umask to prevent permission problems.Eelco Dolstra
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).
2005-02-01* Remove debug code.Eelco Dolstra
2005-02-01* Make check fixes.Eelco Dolstra
2005-02-01* Move root finding from `nix-collect-garbage' to `nix-store --gc'.Eelco Dolstra
This was necessary becase root finding must be done after acquisition of the global GC lock. This makes `nix-collect-garbage' obsolete; it is now just a wrapper around `nix-store --gc'. * Automatically remove stale GC roots (i.e., indirect GC roots that point to non-existent paths).
2005-02-01* nix-build: use an indirection scheme to make it easier for users toEelco Dolstra
get rid of GC roots. Nix-build places a symlink `result' in the current directory. Previously, removing that symlink would not remove the store path being linked to as a GC root. Now, the GC root created by nix-build is actually a symlink in `/nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto' to `result'. So if that symlink is removed the GC root automatically becomes invalid (since it can no longer be resolved). The root itself is not automatically removed - the garbage collector should delete dangling roots.
2005-02-01* nix-store, nix-instantiate: added an option `--add-root' toEelco Dolstra
immediately add the result as a permanent GC root. This is the only way to prevent a race with the garbage collector. For instance, the old style ln -s $(nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)) \ /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result has two time windows in which the garbage collector can interfere (by GC'ing the derivation and the output, respectively). On the other hand, nix-store --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result -r \ $(nix-instantiate --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/drv \ foo.nix) is safe. * nix-build: use `--add-root' to prevent GC races.
2005-02-01* Get rid of hardcoded paths.Eelco Dolstra
2005-01-31* Start of concurrent garbage collection. Processes write temporaryEelco Dolstra
roots to a per-process temporary file in /nix/var/nix/temproots while holding a write lock on that file. The garbage collector acquires read locks on all those files, thus blocking further progress in other Nix processes, and reads the sets of temporary roots.
2005-01-27* Fix and simplify the garbage collector (it's still not concurrent,Eelco Dolstra
though). In particular it's now much easier to register a GC root. Just place a symlink to whatever store path it is that you want to keep in /nix/var/nix/gcroots.
2005-01-25* Really fix the substitute mechanism, i.e., ensure the closureEelco Dolstra
invariant by registering references through the manifest. * Added a test for nix-pull.
2005-01-19* Set the Perl search path properly (reported by Roy van den Broek).Eelco Dolstra
2005-01-17* Removed the `id' attribute hack.Eelco Dolstra
* Formalise the notion of fixed-output derivations, i.e., derivations for which a cryptographic hash of the output is known in advance. Changes to such derivations should not propagate upwards through the dependency graph. Previously this was done by specifying the hash component of the output path through the `id' attribute, but this is insecure since you can lie about it (i.e., you can specify any hash and then produce a completely different output). Now the responsibility for checking the output is moved from the builder to Nix itself. A fixed-output derivation can be created by specifying the `outputHash' and `outputHashAlgo' attributes, the latter taking values `md5', `sha1', and `sha256', and the former specifying the actual hash in hexadecimal or in base-32 (auto-detected by looking at the length of the attribute value). MD5 is included for compatibility but should be considered deprecated. * Removed the `drvPath' pseudo-attribute in derivation results. It's no longer necessary. * Cleaned up the support for multiple output paths in derivation store expressions. Each output now has a unique identifier (e.g., `out', `devel', `docs'). Previously there was no way to tell output paths apart at the store expression level. * `nix-hash' now has a flag `--base32' to specify that the hash should be printed in base-32 notation. * `fetchurl' accepts parameters `sha256' and `sha1' in addition to `md5'. * `nix-prefetch-url' now prints out a SHA-1 hash in base-32. (TODO: a flag to specify the hash.)
2005-01-14* Use absolute paths.Eelco Dolstra
2005-01-12* Script to remove patches from manifests.Eelco Dolstra
2005-01-12* Print out less garbage.Eelco Dolstra
2005-01-05* Prototype store optimiser. It searched the Nix store for identicalEelco Dolstra
files and hard-links them to each other to save disk space. Currently it doesn't actually do the hard-linking, it just reports the amount of space saved if it did.
2004-12-31* If a patch already exists, it must still be included in the manifest.Eelco Dolstra
2004-12-30* More instrumentation (statistics go to /nix/var/log/nix/downloads).Eelco Dolstra
2004-12-30* Fix handling of chained patches: don't skip patches if intermediateEelco Dolstra
paths are missing, etc.
2004-12-30* Some logging for evaluation.Eelco Dolstra
2004-12-29* Propagate patches from the source distribution to the destinationEelco Dolstra
distribution insofar they are applicable.
2004-12-29* Reject patches larger than the full archives they produce.Eelco Dolstra
2004-12-29* Atomic file replacement is good.Eelco Dolstra
2004-12-29* A utility to generate patches between releases based on theirEelco Dolstra
manifests.
2004-12-28* A small utility to add the Size and NarHash fields to old manifests.Eelco Dolstra
2004-12-28* Added a function to write manifests.Eelco Dolstra