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2004-04-22	* Look for GC roots in @localstatedir@/nix/gcroots.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-04-21	* Channels. These allow you to stay current with an evolving set of	Eelco Dolstra
	Nix expressions. To subscribe to a channel (needs to be done only once): nix-channel --add \ http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/nixpkgs-unstable This just adds the given URL to ~/.nix-channels (which can also be edited manually). To update from all channels: nix-channel --update This fetches the latest expressions and pulls cache manifests. The default Nix expression (~/.nix-defexpr) is made to point to the conjunction of the expressions downloaded from all channels. So to update all installed derivations in the current user environment: nix-channel --update nix-env --upgrade '*' If you are really courageous, you can put this in a cronjob or something. You can subscribe to multiple channels. It is not entirely clear what happens when there are name clashes between derivations from different channels. From nix-env/main.cc it appears that the one with the lowest (highest?) hash will be used, which is pretty meaningless.
2004-04-15	* Allow extra parameters to be passed to Curl through the `CURL_FLAGS'	Eelco Dolstra
	environment variable. This is useful for passing authentication information (it won't show up in `ps'). Hacky - nix-push should abstract over the use of Curl.
2004-04-14	* `*.gcroot' files can now containing multiple roots.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-04-06	* Distributed the wrong file.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-04-06	* Switched from wget to curl.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Made the dependencies on bzip2 and the shell explicit.
2004-03-15	* Make perl a dependency of Nix.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-02-20	* Use $(storedir) instead of $(prefix)/store.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-02-13	* Only include predecessors that are themselves being pushed.	Eelco Dolstra
	Otherwise the substitute mechanism can break in subtle ways.
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.
2004-02-06	* Improvements to profiles. Generations are now per-profile, e.g.,	Eelco Dolstra
	default -> default-94-link default-82-link -> /nix/store/cc4480... default-83-link -> /nix/store/caeec8... ... default-94-link -> /nix/store/2896ca... experimental -> experimental-2-link experimental-1-link -> /nix/store/cc4480... experimental-2-link -> /nix/store/a3148f... * `--profile' / `-p' -> `--switch-profile' / `-S' * `--link' / `-l' -> `--profile' / `-p' * The default profile is stored in $prefix/var/nix/profiles. $prefix/var/nix/links is gone. Profiles can be stored anywhere. * The current profile is now referenced from ~/.nix-profile, not ~/.nix-userenv. * The roots to the garbage collector now have extension `.gcroot', not `.id'.
2004-01-16	* Test whether the symlink, not its target, exists.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-01-16	* Doh! Edited `readmanifest.pm' instead of `readmanifest.pm.in'.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-01-14	* Synchronous `nix-pull' with `nix-push'.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Use curl instead of wget.
2004-01-14	* Improved `nix-push': it now uses HTTP PUT (instead of rsync) to copy	Eelco Dolstra
	files. Target location is no longer hard-coded; it accepts a number of URLs on the command line. * `nix-install-package': compatibility fixes.
2004-01-05	* Implemented Eelco V.'s `-p' command to switch profiles. It switches	Eelco Dolstra
	the symlink ~/.nix-userenv to the given argument (which defaults to .../links/current). /etc/profile.d/nix-profile creates this symlink if it doesn't exist yet. Example use: $ nix-env -l my_profile -i foo.nix subversion quake $ nix-env -p my_profile I don't like the term "profile". Let's deprecate it :-)
2003-12-30	* RPM spec file.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Respect DESTDIR variable.
2003-12-21	* Missing semicolons.	Eelco Dolstra

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

2003-12-04	* Fix for too long command lines when calling `nix-store	Martin Bravenboer
	--register-[substitutes\|successors].
2003-12-01	* Bug fix in nix-push.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-12-01	* Help text for all (non-script) programs, so no more:	Eelco Dolstra
	$ nix-instantiate --help error: unknown flag `--help` Try `nix-instantiate --help' for more information. :-)
2003-12-01	* Use a system name that does not include the OS manufacturer (i.e.,	Eelco Dolstra
	"i686-linux" instead of "i686-suse-linux").
2003-11-24	* One-click installation :-)	Eelco Dolstra
	The script nix-install-package takes a `Nix package file' (which contains one or more derivations, along with URLs of Nix caches), unpacks it, pulls the caches, and installs the derivations in the user's environment. For best results, associate the command `xterm -e /nix/bin/nix-install-package' with the MIME type `application/x-nix-package' and visit http://losser.st-lab.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/test/.
2003-11-24	* Fix nix-pull.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-11-24	* Get rid of tab characters.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-11-22	* Fix nix-push.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-11-22	* Maintain integrity of the substitute and successor mappings when	Eelco Dolstra
	deleting a path in the store. * Allow absolute paths in Nix expressions. * Get nix-prefetch-url to work again. * Various other fixes.
2003-11-22	* Fix the garbage collector.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-10-27	* Don't cache the manifest.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-10-20	* NarPath -> NarName.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-10-16	* Remove some debug output.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-10-16	* Substitutes and nix-pull now work again.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Fixed a segfault caused by the buffering of stderr. * Fix now allows the specification of the full output path. This should be used with great care, since it by-passes the normal hash generation. * Incremented the version number to 0.4 (prerelease).
2003-10-16	* Get nix-push to work again.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Fixed svn:ignore on externals/.
2003-10-15	* Keep sources (derivation expression) by default, `--no-source' to	Eelco Dolstra
	override.
2003-10-09	* Follow successors by default (use `--no-successors' to override).	Eelco Dolstra

2003-10-09	* Fixed nix-switch.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-10-07	* Synchronise terminology with the ICSE paper (e.g., slice -> closure,	Eelco Dolstra
	fstate -> Nix expression). * Fix src/test.cc.
2003-10-02	* Use passive FTP in wget.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-08-28	* nix-push generated invalid (old-style) slices.	Eelco Dolstra
	* nar.sh needs a path.
2003-08-25	* Don't continue when the call to nix fails.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-08-15	* A script `nix-prefetch-url' to fetch a URL, place it in the Nix	Eelco Dolstra
	store, and print its hash.
2003-08-15	* Don't use a temporary file.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-08-06	* Allow a name to be given to a system configuration through `--name	Eelco Dolstra
	NAME'. E.g., on the losser Subversion server, I do `nix-switch --name svn $(fix ...)' to atomically upgrade the server (the SVN server uses the Apache and Subversion installations in /nix/var/nix/links/svn).
2003-08-05	* Made nix-push much faster.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-08-05	* Made nix-pull much faster by performing all Fix instantiations at	Eelco Dolstra
	the same time.
2003-07-29	* Bug: Fix does not allow empty names, so don't generate them.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-07-29	* Use `--query --requisites' and include successors when pushing. Don't	Eelco Dolstra
	use `--query --generators' anymore.
2003-07-29	* Typo: if -> elsif.	Eelco Dolstra

2003-07-29	* Get garbage collection and cache population to work properly.	Eelco Dolstra
	Renamed `fstateRefs' to `fstateRequisites'. The semantics of this function is that it returns a list of all paths necessary to realise a given expression. For a derive expression, this is the union of requisites of the inputs; for a slice expression, it is the path of each element in the slice. Also included are the paths of the expressions themselves. Optionally, one can also include the requisites of successor expressions (to recycle intermediate results). * `nix-switch' now distinguishes between an expression and its normal form. Usually, only the normal form is registered as a root of the garbage collector. With the `--source-root' flag, it will also register the original expression as a root. * `nix-collect-garbage' now has a flag `--keep-successors' which causes successors not to be included in the list of garbage paths. * `nix-collect-garbage' now has a flag `--invert' which will print all paths that should not be garbage collected.