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2006-12-02	* Move addTempRoot() to the store API, and add another function	Eelco Dolstra
	syncWithGC() to allow clients to register GC roots without needing write access to the global roots directory or the GC lock.
2006-12-02	* Remove SwitchToOriginalUser, we're not going to need it anymore.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-11-30	* Refactoring. There is now an abstract interface class StoreAPI	Eelco Dolstra
	containing functions that operate on the Nix store. One implementation is LocalStore, which operates on the Nix store directly. The next step, to enable secure multi-user Nix, is to create a different implementation RemoteStore that talks to a privileged daemon process that uses LocalStore to perform the actual operations.
2006-11-24	* Doh! Path sizes need to be computed recursively of course.	Eelco Dolstra
	(NIX-70)
2006-09-14	* Fix a huge gaping hole in nix-env w.r.t. the garbage collector.	Eelco Dolstra
	Nix-env failed to call addPermRoot(), which is necessary to safely add a new root. So if nix-env started after and finished before the garbage collector, the user environment (plus all other new stuff) it built might be garbage collected, leading to a dangling symlink chain in ~/.nix-profile... * Be more explicit if we block on the GC lock ("waiting for the big garbage collector lock..."). * Don't loop trying to create a new generation. It's not necessary anymore since profiles are locked nowadays.
2006-09-04	* Use a proper namespace.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Optimise header file usage a bit. * Compile the parser as C++.
2006-08-11	* `nix-store --gc --print-dead': print the total size of the store	Eelco Dolstra
	objects that would be freed.
2006-08-11	* Don't assume that paths returned by the runtime root finder are	Eelco Dolstra
	valid.
2006-07-20	* Use $(libexecdir) to find find-runtime-roots.pl.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-07-20	* Use debug().	Eelco Dolstra

2006-07-20	* Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to prevent	Eelco Dolstra
	running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-06-20	* Concurrent GC on Cygwin.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-05-29	* Disable the concurrent garbage collector on Cygwin for now.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-05-11	* 64-bit compatibility fixes (for problems revealed by building on an Athlon	Eelco Dolstra
	64 running 64-bit SUSE). A patched ATerm library is required to run Nix succesfully.
2006-03-06	* `nix-env (-i\|-u) --dry-run' now shows exactly which missing paths	Eelco Dolstra
	will be built or substituted.
2005-12-23	* Added a flag `--ignore-liveness' to `nix-store --delete'. It	Eelco Dolstra
	deletes a path even if it is reachable from a root. However, it won't delete a path that still has referrers (since that would violate store invariants). Don't try this at home. It's a useful hack for recovering from certain situations in a somewhat clean way (e.g., holes in closures due to disk corruption).
2005-12-23	* Revived the old "nix-store --delete" operation that deletes the	Eelco Dolstra
	specified paths from the Nix store. However, this operation is safe: it refuses to delete anything that the garbage collector wouldn't delete.
2005-12-15	* `nix-store --gc' prints out the number of bytes freed on stdout	Eelco Dolstra
	(even when it is interrupted by a signal).
2005-12-13	* Change `referer' to `referrer' throughout. In particular, the	Eelco Dolstra
	nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-05-10	* Ignore (with a warning) invalid garbage collector roots.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-03-25	* When finding live paths, the deriver need not be valid.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-03-24	* Create missing log and temproots directories automatically (reported	Eelco Dolstra
	by Rob).
2005-02-17	* Switch to the calling user context for some more operations in a	Eelco Dolstra
	setuid installation.
2005-02-14	* Implement the `gc-keep-derivations' global configuretion flag.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-02-14	* Global configuration option `env-keep-derivations' to store pointer	Eelco Dolstra
	to derivations in user environments. Nice for developers (since it prevents build-time-only dependencies from being GC'ed, in conjunction with `gc-keep-outputs'). Turned off by default.
2005-02-08	* Updated `nix-store --verify' to the new schema.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-02-07	* `nix-store -qb' to query derivation environment bindings. Useful	Eelco Dolstra
	for finding build-time dependencies (possibly after a build). E.g., $ nix-store -qb aterm $(nix-store -qd $(which strc)) /nix/store/jw7c7s65n1gwhxpn35j9rgcci6ilzxym-aterm-2.3.1 * Arguments to nix-store can be files within store objects, e.g., /nix/store/jw7c...-aterm-2.3.1/bin/baffle. * Idem for garbage collector roots.
2005-02-01	* A GC setting `gc-keep-outputs' to specify whether output paths of	Eelco Dolstra
	derivations should be kept.
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 to	Eelco 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' to	Eelco 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.
2005-01-31	* Acquire a global GC lock to prevent new temporary root files from	Eelco Dolstra
	being created after the garbage collector has read the temproots directory. This blocks the creation of new processes, but the garbage collector could periodically release the GC lock to allow them to run.
2005-01-31	* Add a test for a more subtle race: a process starting after the	Eelco Dolstra
	temporary root files have been read but creating outputs before the store directory has been read.
2005-01-31	* Automatically remove temporary root files.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-01-31	* Topologically sort paths under the references relation to ensure	Eelco Dolstra
	that they are deleted in an order that maintains the closure invariant. * Presence of a path in a temporary roots file does not imply that all paths in its closure are also present, so add the closure.
2005-01-31	* Don't delete active lock files.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-01-31	* Start of concurrent garbage collection. Processes write temporary	Eelco 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.
2005-01-19	* Renamed `normalise.cc' -> `build.cc', `storeexprs.cc' ->	Eelco Dolstra
	`derivations.cc', etc. * Store the SHA-256 content hash of store paths in the database after they have been built/added. This is so that we can check whether the store has been messed with (a la `rpm --verify'). * When registering path validity, verify that the closure property holds.
2005-01-19	* Started removing closure store expressions, i.e., the explicit	Eelco Dolstra
	representation of closures as ATerms in the Nix store. Instead, the file system pointer graph is now stored in the Nix database. This has many advantages: - It greatly simplifies the implementation (we can drop the notion of `successors', and so on). - It makes registering roots for the garbage collector much easier. Instead of specifying the closure expression as a root, you can simply specify the store path that must be retained as a root. This could not be done previously, since there was no way to find the closure store expression containing a given store path. - Better traceability: it is now possible to query what paths are referenced by a path, and what paths refer to a path.
2004-08-25	* `--min-age' flag in nix-store and nix-collect-garbage to only delete	Eelco Dolstra
	unreachable paths that haven't been used for N hours. For instance, `nix-collect-garbage --min-age 168' only deletes paths that haven't been accessed in the last week. This is useful for instance in the build farm where many derivations can be shared between consecutive builds, and we wouldn't want a garbage collect to throw them all away. We could of course register them as roots, but then we'd to unregister them at some point, which would be a pain to manage. The `--min-age' flag gives us a sort of MRU caching scheme. BUG: this really shouldn't be in gc.cc since that violates mechanism/policy separation.
2004-08-25	* Put the garbage collector in nix-store: operation `--gc',	Eelco Dolstra
	suboperations `--print-live', `--print-dead', and `--delete'. The roots are not determined by nix-store; they are read from standard input. This is to make it easy to customise what the roots are. The collector now no longer fails when store expressions are missing (which legally happens when using substitutes). It never tries to fetch paths through substitutes. TODO: acquire a global lock on the store while garbage collecting. * Removed `nix-store --delete'.