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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)
2006-11-24* Dead files.Eelco Dolstra
2006-11-18* Turn off synchronisation between C and C++ I/O functions. ThisEelco Dolstra
gives a huge speedup in operations that read or write from standard input/output. (So libstdc++'s I/O isn't that bad, you just have to call std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false).) For instance, `nix-store --register-substitutes' went from 1.4 seconds to 0.1 seconds on a certain input. Another victory for Valgrind.
2006-11-13* Remove the undocumented `noscan' feature. It's no longer necessaryEelco Dolstra
now that reference scanning is sufficiently streamy.
2006-11-13* Magic attribute `exportReferencesGraph' that allows the referencesEelco Dolstra
graph to be passed to a builder. This attribute should be a list of pairs [name1 path1 name2 path2 ...]. The references graph of each `pathN' will be stored in a text file `nameN' in the temporary build directory. The text files have the format used by `nix-store --register-validity'. However, the deriver fields are left empty. `exportReferencesGraph' is useful for builders that want to do something with the closure of a store path. Examples: the builders that make initrds and ISO images for NixOS. `exportReferencesGraph' is entirely pure. It's necessary because otherwise the only way for a builder to get this information would be to call `nix-store' directly, which is not allowed (though unfortunately possible).
2006-11-13* Option `--reregister' in `nix-store --register-validity'. We needEelco Dolstra
this in the NixOS installer (or in the buildfarm) to ensure that the cryptographic hash of the path contents still matches the actual contents.
2006-11-03* Fix importing of derivation outputs.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-30* readFile: don't overflow the stack on large files.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-28* `nix-store --read-log / -l PATH' shows the build log of PATH, ifEelco Dolstra
available. For instance, $ nix-store -l $(which svn) | less lets you read the build log of the Subversion instance in your profile. * `nix-store -qb': if applied to a non-derivation, take the deriver.
2006-10-23* Some better error messages.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-19* Better message.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-19* toFile: maintain the references.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-19* Special derivation attribute `allowedReferences' that causes Nix toEelco Dolstra
check that the references of the output of a derivation are in the specified set. For instance, allowedReferences = []; specifies that the output cannot have any references. (This is useful, for instance, for the generation of bootstrap binaries for stdenv-linux, which must not have any references for purity). It could also be used to guard against undesired runtime dependencies, e.g., {gcc, dynlib}: derivation { ... allowedReferences = [dynlib]; } says that the output can refer to the path of `dynlib' but not `gcc'. A `forbiddedReferences' attribute would be more useful for this, though.
2006-10-17* Backwards compatibility hack for user environments made by Nix <= 0.10.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-17* Backwards compatibility with old user environment manifests.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-17* Print out the offending path.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-17* An awful backwards compatibility hack.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-17* baseNameOf: paths don't have to be absolute.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-17* Maintain the references for the user environment properly.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-17* toPath: should be the identity on paths.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-17* dirOf: return a path if the argument is a path.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-17* toString: don't copy paths. So toString can be used to passEelco Dolstra
non-store paths to a builder.
2006-10-17* Do the path check on the normal form.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-17* Don't generate an empty drvPath attribute in the manifest.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-16* Big cleanup of the semantics of paths, strings, contexts, stringEelco Dolstra
concatenation and string coercion. This was a big mess (see e.g. NIX-67). Contexts are now folded into strings, so that they don't cause evaluation errors when they're not expected. The semantics of paths has been clarified (see nixexpr-ast.def). toString() and coerceToString() have been merged. Semantic change: paths are now copied to the store when they're in a concatenation (and in most other situations - that's the formalisation of the meaning of a path). So "foo " + ./bla evaluates to "foo /nix/store/hash...-bla", not "foo /path/to/current-dir/bla". This prevents accidental impurities, and is more consistent with the treatment of derivation outputs, e.g., `"foo " + bla' where `bla' is a derivation. (Here `bla' would be replaced by the output path of `bla'.)
2006-10-13* A helpful message.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-13* Don't crash when upgrading the Berkeley DB environment.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-11* Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just anotherEelco Dolstra
kind of notation for strings.
2006-10-10* Quick hack to fix NIX-67: evaluation result differing if the NixEelco Dolstra
expression resides in the store.
2006-10-10* `import': unwrap the context. Necessary to make `import (x + y)'Eelco Dolstra
work, where x is a store path.
2006-10-05* Documented nix-store --dump / --restore.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-03* toXML: propagate the context to allow derivations to be used in theEelco Dolstra
argument.
2006-10-03* toFile: added an additional argument to specify the store pathEelco Dolstra
suffix, e.g., `builtins.toFile "builder.sh" "..."'. * toFile: handle references to other files correctly.
2006-10-02* Finally, a real "let" syntax: `let x = ...; ... z = ...; in ...'.Eelco Dolstra
2006-10-02* Hack for Bison 2.3 compatability.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-27* Fix setuid builds.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-25* Quick hack to let nix-install-package set the package name properlyEelco Dolstra
(e.g., "java-front-0.9pre15899" instead of "java-front"; particularly important when doing upgrades later on).
2006-09-24* The result of a concatenation with a derivation on the left-handEelco Dolstra
side should be a path, I guess. * Handle paths that are in the store but not direct children of the store directory. * Ugh, hack to prevent double context wrapping.
2006-09-24* Primop `toPath' to convert a string to a path.Eelco Dolstra
* Primop `pathExists' to check for path existence.
2006-09-24* Builtin function `getEnv' for getting environment variables.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-24* lessThan primitive for integer comparison.Eelco Dolstra
2006-09-22* Builtin function `add' to add integers.Eelco Dolstra
* Put common test functions in tests/lang/lib.nix.
2006-09-22* Added a builtin function `isList' to test whether a value is a list.Eelco Dolstra
With this primitive, a list-flattening function can be implemented (NIX-55, example is in tests/lang/eval-okay-flatten.nix).
2006-09-22* Builtin functions `head' and `tail' to return the head and tail ofEelco Dolstra
list. Useful for lots of things, such as implementing a fold function (see NIX-30, example is in tests/lang/eval-okay-list.nix).
2006-09-22* New builtin functions builtins.{hasAttr, getAttr} to check forEelco Dolstra
attribute existence and to return an attribute from an attribute set, respectively. Example: `hasAttr "foo" {foo = 1;}'. They differ from the `?' and `.' operators in that the attribute name is an arbitrary expression. (NIX-61)
2006-09-22* Use a bounded amount of memory in scanForReferences() by not readingEelco Dolstra
regular files into memory all at once.
2006-09-22* Don't allocate the buffer twice.Eelco Dolstra