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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2012-03-26	Mac OS X fix	Eelco Dolstra

2012-03-26	Delete non-directory valid paths right away	Eelco Dolstra
	It's unlikely that rename() is faster than unlink() on a regular file or symlink, so don't bother.
2012-03-26	Make the garbage collector more concurrent	Eelco Dolstra
	Make the garbage collector more concurrent by deleting valid paths outside the region where we're holding the global GC lock. This should greatly reduce the time during which new builds are blocked, since the deletion accounts for the vast majority of the time spent in the GC. To ensure that this is safe, the valid paths are invalidated and renamed to some arbitrary path while we're holding the lock. This ensures that we when we finally delete the path, it's not a (newly) valid or locked path.
2012-03-26	Remove the --max-links GC option	Eelco Dolstra
	We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more than 32,000 files in a directory.
2012-03-20	nix-store --clear-failed-paths: Clear derivation outputs	Eelco Dolstra
	If the argument to ‘nix-store --clear-failed-paths’ is a derivation, then clear the failed state of its outputs.
2012-03-18	Drop the externals directory	Eelco Dolstra
	Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed. SQLite is detected using pkg-config. We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so depending on SQLite is not a big problem. The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2012-03-13	Ensure that Perl processes delete their entry in the temproots directory	Eelco Dolstra
	By moving the destructor object to libstore.so, it's also run when download-using-manifests and nix-prefetch-url exit. This prevents them from cluttering /nix/var/nix/temproots with stale files.
2012-03-05	Fix compilation on FreeBSD	Eelco Dolstra
	http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2213576 Not sure why compilation doesn't fail on other platforms...
2012-03-05	Set the close-on-exec flag on file descriptors	Eelco Dolstra

2012-03-05	Don't leak a file descriptor in commonChildInit()	Eelco Dolstra

2012-03-05	nix-worker: put the pid of the caller in argv[1]	Eelco Dolstra
	This is useful for debugging.
2012-03-05	Restore progress indication during nix-copy-closure	Eelco Dolstra

2012-03-01	Remove dependency on sqlite3_table_column_metadata	Eelco Dolstra
	Not all SQLite builds have the function sqlite3_table_column_metadata. We were only using it in a schema upgrade check for compatibility with databases that were probably never seen in the wild. So remove it.
2012-03-01	Fix an uninitialised variable	Eelco Dolstra
	The variable ‘useChroot’ was not initialised properly. This caused random failures if using the build hook. Seen on Mac OS X 10.7 with Clang. Thanks to KolibriFX for finding this :-)
2012-02-18	Fix chroots builds	Eelco Dolstra
	Chroots are initialised by hard-linking inputs from the Nix store to the chroot. This doesn't work if the input has its immutable bit set, because it's forbidden to create hard links to immutable files. So temporarily clear the immutable bit when creating and destroying the chroot. Note that making regular files in the Nix store immutable isn't very reliable, since the bit can easily become cleared: for instance, if we run the garbage collector after running ‘nix-store --optimise’. So maybe we should only make directories immutable.
2012-02-15	On Linux, make the Nix store really read-only by using the immutable bit	Eelco Dolstra
	I was bitten one time too many by Python modifying the Nix store by creating *.pyc files when run as root. On Linux, we can prevent this by setting the immutable bit on files and directories (as in ‘chattr +i’). This isn't supported by all filesystems, so it's not an error if setting the bit fails. The immutable bit is cleared by the garbage collector before deleting a path. The only tricky aspect is in optimiseStore(), since it's forbidden to create hard links to an immutable file. Thus optimiseStore() temporarily clears the immutable bit before creating the link.
2012-02-15	Fix a broken guard around utime()	Eelco Dolstra
	Because of an outdated check for a timestamp of 0, we were calling utime() even when it wasn't necessary.
2012-02-15	Don't use deletePath() to delete a single file	Eelco Dolstra

2012-02-09	Fix error message	Eelco Dolstra
	This fixes the error message error: file `' was not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I)
2012-02-09	Use data() instead of c_str() where appropriate	Eelco Dolstra

2012-02-04	* Inline some functions and get rid of the indirection through	Eelco Dolstra
	EvalState::eval(). This gives a 12% speedup on ‘nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixos/ -A system --readonly-mode’ (from 1.01s to 0.89s).
2012-02-04	* Print elapsed evaluation time.	Eelco Dolstra

2012-01-26	* Fix importing a derivation. This gave a segfault.	Eelco Dolstra

2012-01-19	* Allow comparisons between derivations by comparing the outPath	Eelco Dolstra
	attributes.
2012-01-19	* Add some debug output to print the derivation name once it's known.	Eelco Dolstra
	This makes it easier to pinpoint the source of a crash.
2012-01-17	* Added a command ‘nix-store --print-env $drvpath’ that prints out the	Eelco Dolstra
	environment of the given derivation in a format that can be sourced by the shell, e.g. $ eval "$(nix-store --print-env $(nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixpkgs -A pkg))" $ NIX_BUILD_TOP=/tmp $ source $stdenv/setup This is especially useful to reproduce the environment used to build a package outside of its builder for development purposes. TODO: add a nix-build option to do the above and fetch the dependencies of the derivation as well.
2012-01-07	* Don't create thunks for simple constants (integers, strings, paths)	Eelco Dolstra
	and allocate them only once. * Move Value and related functions into value.hh.
2012-01-04	* Remove dead code.	Eelco Dolstra

2012-01-04	* Don't use dynamic_cast, it's very slow. "nix-instantiate	Eelco Dolstra
	/etc/nixos/nixos -A system" spent about 10% of its time in dynamic_cast.
2012-01-03	* Drop the inefficient "Path" suffix in output attribute names.	Eelco Dolstra

2012-01-03	* Move the implementation of the ‘derivation’ primop into a separate	Eelco Dolstra
	file.
2012-01-03	* Sync with the trunk.	Eelco Dolstra

2012-01-03	* Refactoring: Get rid of a few subdirectories in corepkgs/, and some	Eelco Dolstra
	other simplifications. * Use <nix/...> to locate the corepkgs. This allows them to be overriden through $NIX_PATH. * Use bash's pipefail option in the NAR builder so that we don't need to create a temporary file.
2011-12-30	* Support multiple outputs in nix-store (specifically the ‘--query’	Eelco Dolstra
	and ‘--realise’ actions).
2011-12-30	* Oops.	Eelco Dolstra

2011-12-30	* Move topoSortPaths() out of gc.cc.	Eelco Dolstra

2011-12-30	* Reject a build if there is a cycle among the outputs. This is	Eelco Dolstra
	necessary because existing code assumes that the references graph is acyclic.
2011-12-30	* Sync with the trunk.	Eelco Dolstra

2011-12-25	* Make sure that lock files are cleaned up properly when building	Eelco Dolstra
	through the build hook.
2011-12-22	* Oops.	Eelco Dolstra

2011-12-22	* In the garbage collector, delete invalid paths before deleting	Eelco Dolstra
	unreachable paths. This matters when using --max-freed etc.: unreachable paths could become reachable again, so it's nicer to keep them if there is "real" garbage to be deleted. Also, don't use readDirectory() but read the Nix store and delete invalid paths in parallel. This reduces GC latency on very large Nix stores.
2011-12-22	* Drop unnecessary call to canonPath() (nixStore is already canonical).	Eelco Dolstra

2011-12-21	* Another case of lock file permissions being too liberal.	Eelco Dolstra

2011-12-21	* The ‘foo.drvPath’ feature was already broken in read-only mode.	Eelco Dolstra
	Since it's rarely used and fixing it is too much work right now, just document it.
2011-12-21	Revert previous commit	Shea Levy
	It doesn't detect indirect references
2011-12-21	Detect and reject mutually-referential outputs	Shea Levy
	There is probably a more efficient way to do this.
2011-12-21	* Simplify the context handling logic.	Eelco Dolstra

2011-12-20	* Fix the build.	Eelco Dolstra

2011-12-16	* Sync with the trunk.	Eelco Dolstra

2011-12-16	* importPath() -> importPaths(). Because of buffering of the input	Eelco Dolstra
	stream it's now necessary for the daemon to process the entire sequence of exported paths, rather than letting the client do it.