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2005-01-19* `nix-store --build' now builds its arguments in parallel instead ofEelco Dolstra
sequentially (within the limits set by `--jobs'). This should greatly improve the utilisation of the build farm when doing Nixpkgs builds.
2005-01-19* Change extension `.store' to `.drv'.Eelco Dolstra
* Re-enable `nix-store --query --requisites'.
2005-01-19* Started removing closure store expressions, i.e., the explicitEelco 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.
2005-01-19* Support arities > 6.Eelco Dolstra
2005-01-18* Get --readonly-mode to work again.Eelco Dolstra
2005-01-17* Actually check that the result of fixed-output derivations matchesEelco Dolstra
the specified hash.
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* Shorten SHA-256 hashes used in store path name generation to 160Eelco Dolstra
bits, then encode them in a radix-32 representation (using digits and letters except e, o, u, and t). This produces store paths like /nix/store/4i0zb0z7f88mwghjirkz702a71dcfivn-aterm-2.3.1. The nice thing about this is that the hash part of the file name is still 32 characters, as before with MD5. (Of course, shortening SHA-256 to 160 bits makes it no better than SHA-160 in theory, but hopefully it's a bit more resistant to attacks; it's certainly a lot slower.)
2005-01-14* Start move towards SHA-256 hashes instead of MD5.Eelco Dolstra
* Start cleaning up unique store path generation (they weren't always unique; in particular the suffix ("-aterm-2.2", "-builder.sh") was not part of the hash, therefore changes to the suffix would cause multiple store objects with the same hash).
2005-01-14* Add SHA-256.Eelco Dolstra
* Tests for the various hashes.
2005-01-14* Removed some dead code.Eelco Dolstra
2005-01-13* Added SHA-1 support. `nix-hash' now has an option `--type sha1' toEelco Dolstra
select SHA-1 hashing.
2005-01-13* Refactoring to support SHA-1.Eelco Dolstra
2005-01-04* Cygwin compatibility.Eelco Dolstra
2004-12-29* Integrated bsdiff/bspatch 4.2 (fromEelco Dolstra
http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/bsdiff-4.2.tar.gz) into the source tree. The license is a bit peculiar, but it does allow verbatim copying, which is what we do here (i.e., so don't make any changes to the sources).
2004-12-20* An operation `nix-store --clear-substitutes' to remove allEelco Dolstra
registered substitute mappings.
2004-12-20* Simplify the substitute mechanism:Eelco Dolstra
- Drop the store expression. So now a substitute is just a command-line invocation (a program name + arguments). If you register a substitute you are responsible for registering the expression that built it (if any) as a root of the garbage collector. - Drop the substitutes-rev DB table.
2004-11-29* utime() follows symlinks, so don't change the mtime if the file is aEelco Dolstra
symlink.
2004-11-29* Remove debug statement.Eelco Dolstra
2004-11-29* Canonicalise metadata of all files in store paths (set the mtime toEelco Dolstra
0, set the mode to either 444 or 555, set the group to the default).
2004-11-12* Document --delete-generations and other nix-env options.Eelco Dolstra
2004-11-12* Document --eval-only and --parse-only options in nix-instantiate.Eelco Dolstra
2004-11-08* Fix broken format string.Eelco Dolstra
2004-11-03* string2ATerm -> overloaded toATerm.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-29* Drop ATmake / ATMatcher also in handling store expressions.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-27* Bug fix in parsing of /* ... */ comments; due to longest matchEelco Dolstra
regexp there could be only one such comment per file.
2004-10-27* Turn on read-only mode in queries. This prevents redundant store I/O.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-27* Oops, I did it again.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-27* Add file to `make dist'.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-26* Bug: check that term is an application.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-26* Don't use ATmake / ATmatch anymore, nor the ATMatcher class.Eelco Dolstra
Instead we generate data bindings (build and match functions) for the constructors specified in `constructors.def'. In particular this removes the conversions between AFuns and strings, and Nix expression evaluation now seems 3 to 4 times faster.
2004-10-26* Evaluate argument to `import'.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-26* Doh!Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-26* String/path concatenation operator (`+').Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-26* Mode `--parse-only' to parse the input (on stdin, `-'), and printEelco Dolstra
out the AST as an ATerm. * Mode `--eval-only' to parse and evaluate the input, and print the resulting normal form as an ATerm. Neither of these modes require store/DB write permission.
2004-10-25* New language feature: with expressions.Eelco Dolstra
The expression `with E1; E2' evaluates to E2 with all bindings in the attribute set E1 substituted. E.g., with {x = 123;}; x evaluates to 123. That is, the attribute set E1 is in scope in E2. This is particularly useful when importing files containing lots definitions. E.g., instead of let { inherit (import ./foo.nix) a b c d e f; body = ... a ... f ...; } we can now say with import ./foo.nix; ... a ... f ... I.e., we don't have to say what variables should be brought into scope.
2004-10-25* Allow certain operations to succeed even if we don't have writeEelco Dolstra
permission to the Nix store or database. E.g., `nix-env -qa' will work, but `nix-env -qas' won't (the latter needs DB access). The option `--readonly-mode' forces this mode; otherwise, it's only activated when the database cannot be opened.
2004-10-25* Revert r1594 - it didn't solve the problem. Instead addEelco Dolstra
svn-revision to distributions, which should fix it.
2004-10-25* Make sure that the prerelease version is included in `--version'.Eelco Dolstra
2004-10-14* In `nix-env -q', sort derivations by name *without* caseEelco Dolstra
sensitivity.
2004-09-22* Make store objects created by substitutes read-only.Eelco Dolstra
2004-09-12* Fallback didn't work for subderivations of an unnormalised the mainEelco Dolstra
derivation, since NormalisationGoal would first run a NormalisationGoal on the subderivation (a no-op, since in a situation where we need fallback the successor is known), and then runs a RealisationGoal on the normal form, which then cannot do a fallback because it doesn't know the derivation expression for which it is a normal form. Tossed out the 2-phase normalisation/realisation in NormalisationGoal and SubstitutionGoal since it's no longer needed - a RealisationGoal will run a NormalisationGoal if necessary.
2004-09-10* Operation `--delete-generations' to delete generations of aEelco Dolstra
profile. Arguments are either generation number, or `old' to delete all non-current generations. Typical use: $ nix-env --delete-generations old $ nix-collect-garbage * istringstream -> string2Int.
2004-09-09* Remove write permission from store objects after they have beenEelco Dolstra
added to the store. Bug reported by Martin.
2004-09-09* A very dirty hack to make setuid installations a bit nicer to use.Eelco Dolstra
Previously there was the problem that all files read by nix-env etc. should be reachable and readable by the Nix user. So for instance building a Nix expression in your home directory meant that the home directory should have at least g+x or o+x permission so that the Nix user could reach the Nix expression. Now we just switch back to the original user just prior to reading sources and the like. The places where this happens are somewhat arbitrary, however. Any scope that has a live SwitchToOriginalUser object in it is executed as the original user. * Back out r1385. setreuid() sets the saved uid to the new real/effective uid, which prevents us from switching back to the original uid. setresuid() doesn't have this problem (although the manpage has a bug: specifying -1 for the saved uid doesn't leave it unchanged; an explicit value must be specified).
2004-09-09* Use setre[ug]id() instead of setres[ug]id(), since the former isEelco Dolstra
more common than the latter (which exists only on Linux and FreeBSD). We don't really care about dropping the saved IDs since there apparently is no way to quiry them in any case, so it can't influence the build (unlike the effective IDs which are checked by Perl for instance).
2004-09-09* Set the umask to known value (0022). This is important in aEelco Dolstra
setuid installation, since the calling user may have a more fascist umask (say, 0077), which would cause the store objects built by Nix to be unreadable to anyone other than the Nix user.
2004-08-31* Main the `substitutes-rev' table again, but now in a way thatEelco Dolstra
doesn't take \Theta(n^2) space/time complexity.
2004-08-31* Quadruple the Berkeley DB locking limits to get rid of out of memoryEelco Dolstra
errors while running `nix-store --verify'.
2004-08-30* Removed nrWaitees field. It was redundant with waitees.size() andEelco Dolstra
could get out of sync if multiple input derivations mapped to the same closure expression (since waitees is a set).