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2009-03-28* Simplify communication with the hook a bit (don't use fileEelco Dolstra
descriptors 3/4, just use stdin/stderr).
2008-12-04* Don't ignore errors from writing to stderr. That way, whenEelco Dolstra
nix-store -r (or some other operation) is started via ssh, it will at least have a chance of terminating quickly when the connection is killed. Right now it just runs to completion, because it never notices that stderr is no longer connected to anything. Of course it would be better if sshd would just send a SIGHUP, but it doesn't (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396).
2008-08-25* Strip off the `.nix' suffix from the attribute name for files inEelco Dolstra
~/.nix-defexpr, otherwise the attribute cannot be selected with the `-A' option. Useful if you want to stick a Nix expression directly in ~/.nix-defexpr.
2008-08-02* Make nix-env --dry-run print the paths to be substituted correctlyEelco Dolstra
again. (After the previous substituter mechanism refactoring I didn't update the code that obtains the references of substitutable paths.) This required some refactoring: the substituter programs are now kept running and receive/respond to info requests via stdin/stdout.
2008-06-18* --max-freed: support values >= 4 GB.Eelco Dolstra
2008-06-18* Some refactoring: put the GC options / results in separate structs.Eelco Dolstra
* The garbage collector now also prints the number of blocks freed.
2008-06-09* Merged the no-bdb branch (-r10900:HEADEelco Dolstra
https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/branches/no-bdb).
2008-05-21* GCC 4.3.0 (Fedora 9) compatibility fixes. Reported by Gour andEelco Dolstra
Armijn Hemel.
2008-03-27* Use /tmp/nix-build-<drvpath>-<counter> instead ofEelco Dolstra
/tmp/nix-<pid>-<counter> for temporary build directories. This increases purity a bit: many packages store the temporary build path in their output, causing (generally unimportant) binary differences.
2007-12-14* Use strsignal if available to give better error messages forEelco Dolstra
builders that fail due to a signal.
2007-11-29* nix-env -e: support uninstalling by path, so that one can sayEelco Dolstra
$ nix-env -e $(which firefox) or $ nix-env -e /nix/store/nywzlygrkfcgz7dfmhm5xixlx1l0m60v-pan-0.132 * nix-env -i: if an argument contains a slash anywhere, treat it as a path and follow it through symlinks into the Nix store. This allows things like $ nix-build -A firefox $ nix-env -i ./result * nix-env -q/-i/-e: don't complain when the `*' selector doesn't match anything. In particular, `nix-env -q \*' doesn't fail anymore on an empty profile.
2007-10-27* Delete the chroot directory automatically.Eelco Dolstra
* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-27* Support for doing builds in a chroot under Linux. The builder isEelco Dolstra
executed in a chroot that contains just the Nix store, the temporary build directory, and a configurable set of additional directories (/dev and /proc by default). This allows a bit more purity enforcement: hidden build-time dependencies on directories such as /usr or /nix/var/nix/profiles are no longer possible. As an added benefit, accidental network downloads (cf. NIXPKGS-52) are prevented as well (because files such as /etc/resolv.conf are not available in the chroot). However the usefulness of chroots is diminished by the fact that many builders depend on /bin/sh, so you need /bin in the list of additional directories. (And then on non-NixOS you need /lib as well...)
2007-09-17* nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then theEelco Dolstra
Nix expressions in that directory are combined into an attribute set {file1 = import file1; file2 = import file2; ...}, i.e. each Nix expression is an attribute with the file name as the attribute name. Also recurses into directories. * nix-env: removed the "--import" (-I) option which set the ~/.nix-defexpr symlink. * nix-channel: don't use "nix-env --import", instead symlink ~/.nix-defexpr/channels. So finally nix-channel --update doesn't override any default Nix expressions but combines with them. This means that you can have (say) a local Nixpkgs SVN tree and use it as a default for nix-env: $ ln -s .../path-to-nixpkgs-tree ~/.nix-defexpr/nixpkgs_svn and be subscribed to channels (including Nixpkgs) at the same time. (If there is any ambiguity, the -A flag can be used to disambiguate, e.g. "nix-env -i -A nixpkgs_svn.pan".)
2007-08-12* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if weEelco Dolstra
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly. This means that it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster (NIX-95). Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with each other. The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external program to get the substitutes info. For instance, "nix-env -qas" takes a bit longer. Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid paths. On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR" on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway). * Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-05-01* Set a terminate() handler to ensure that we leave the BDBEelco Dolstra
environment cleanly even when an exception is thrown from a destructor. We still crash, but we don't take all other Nix processes with us.
2007-03-19* Terminate build hooks and substitutes with a TERM signal, not a KILLEelco Dolstra
signal. This is necessary because those processes may have joined the BDB environment, so they have to be given a chance to clean up. (NIX-85)
2007-02-21* `nix-store --import': import an archive created by `nix-storeEelco Dolstra
--export' into the Nix store, and optionally check the cryptographic signatures against /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.pub. (TODO: verify against a set of public keys.)
2007-02-21* `nix-store --export --sign': sign the Nix archive using the RSA keyEelco Dolstra
in /nix/etc/nix/signing-key.sec
2006-12-07* Move setuidCleanup() to libutil.Eelco Dolstra
2006-12-07* Change the ownership of store paths to the Nix account beforeEelco Dolstra
deleting them using the setuid helper.
2006-12-07* Move killUser() to libutil so that the setuid helper can use it.Eelco Dolstra
2006-12-05* The determination of the root set should be made by the privilegedEelco Dolstra
process, so forward the operation. * Spam the user about GC misconfigurations (NIX-71). * findRoots: skip all roots that are unreadable - the warnings with which we spam the user should be enough.
2006-12-04* Daemon mode (`nix-worker --daemon'). Clients connect to the serverEelco Dolstra
via the Unix domain socket in /nix/var/nix/daemon.socket. The server forks a worker process per connection. * readString(): use the heap, not the stack. * Some protocol fixes.
2006-12-03* Pid::kill() should be interruptable.Eelco Dolstra
2006-12-03* Some hackery to propagate the worker's stderr and exceptions to theEelco Dolstra
client.
2006-12-02* Move addTempRoot() to the store API, and add another functionEelco 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 most of the old setuid code.Eelco Dolstra
* Much simpler setuid code for the worker in slave mode.
2006-12-02* Remove SwitchToOriginalUser, we're not going to need it anymore.Eelco Dolstra
2006-11-29* Don't spam.Eelco Dolstra
2006-11-29* Example script to set permissions for setuid operation.Roy van den Broek
2006-11-29* Remove --enable-setuid, --with-nix-user and --with-nix-group.Eelco Dolstra
Rather, setuid support is now always compiled in (at least on platforms that have the setresuid system call, e.g., Linux and FreeBSD), but it must enabled by chowning/chmodding the Nix binaries.
2006-11-24* Doh! Path sizes need to be computed recursively of course.Eelco Dolstra
(NIX-70)
2006-10-30* readFile: don't overflow the stack on large files.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-27* Fix setuid builds.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-04* Move setuid stuff to libutil.Eelco Dolstra
* Install libexpr header files.
2006-09-04* Use a proper namespace.Eelco Dolstra
* Optimise header file usage a bit. * Compile the parser as C++.
2006-08-29* Fix the ~ operator.Eelco Dolstra
2006-08-26* Refactoring.Eelco Dolstra
2006-08-04* Weird issue on Cygwin with the include file order.Eelco Dolstra
2006-07-20* Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to preventEelco Dolstra
running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-07-06* Allow the canonical system name to be specified at runtime in theEelco Dolstra
Nix config file.
2006-06-19* Write messages to stderr in a slightly more atomic way. Useful whenEelco Dolstra
there are several parallel processes.
2006-06-14* Fix for a problem with BSD's group ownership semantics when the user Eelco Dolstra
is not in the "wheel" group.
2006-05-11* 64-bit compatibility fixes (for problems revealed by building on an AthlonEelco Dolstra
64 running 64-bit SUSE). A patched ATerm library is required to run Nix succesfully.
2006-03-08* Some refactoring of the exception handling code so that we can catchEelco Dolstra
Nix expression assertion failures.
2006-01-09* dirOf: return "/", not "", for paths in the root directory. Fixes NIX-26.Eelco Dolstra
2006-01-08* Resolve all symlink components in the location of the temporaryEelco Dolstra
build directory (TMPDIR, i.e., /tmp). Fixes NIX-26.
2005-12-15* `nix-store --gc' prints out the number of bytes freed on stdoutEelco Dolstra
(even when it is interrupted by a signal).
2005-09-22* Parse multi-valued options.Eelco Dolstra