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2012-02-02	* nix-channel: fail if we don't have write permission to the manifests	Eelco Dolstra
	directory. Previously in this situation we did add the Nix expressions from the channel to allow installation from source, but this doesn't work for binary-only channels and leads to confusing error messages.
2012-01-05	* Doh!	Eelco Dolstra

2012-01-05	* Add a -I flag to the Perl bindings to nix-build and some other	Eelco Dolstra
	scripts. * Include the version and architecture in the -I flag so that there is at least a chance that a Nix binary built for one Perl version will run on another version.
2012-01-03	* Add a test for nix-channel.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Refactor the nix-channel unpacker a bit.
2011-10-10	* Set the executable bit on scripts.	Eelco Dolstra

2009-12-09	* When doing a nix-pull, remove old manifests downloaded from the same	Eelco Dolstra
	URL. This prevents lots of old cruft accumulating in /nix/var/nix/manifests.
2009-11-13	* In nix-pull/nix-channel, create the manifests directory if it	Eelco Dolstra
	doesn't exist. The Debian packages don't include the manifests directory, so nix-channel would silently skip doing a nix-pull, resulting in everything being built from source. Thanks to Juan Pedro Bolívar Puente.
2009-02-27	* nix-channel: use nix-build.	Eelco Dolstra

2007-09-17	* nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then the	Eelco 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".)
2007-08-22	* nix-channel: supports users who don't have write permission to the	Eelco Dolstra
	manifests directory. In that case, we don't do a nix-pull, so the user gets pure source deployment. The directory /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/$USER should be writable. (It's created automatically if /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user is writable, e.g. if it has 1777 permission.)
2007-08-12	* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we	Eelco 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).
2007-08-10	* Enable nix-prefetch-url caching in nix-channel.	Eelco Dolstra

2007-08-09	* nix-prefetch-url: support caching. If the environment variable	Eelco Dolstra
	NIX_DOWNLOAD_CACHE is set, then nix-prefetch-url will store the hash and timestamp of downloaded files in the directory $NIX_DOWNLOAD_CACHE. This allows it to figure out if the file is still in the Nix store.
2007-05-02	(no commit message)	Eelco Dolstra

2007-05-01	* Give unpacked channels more sensible names than 0, 1, ... They now	Eelco Dolstra
	get the basename of the channel URL (e.g., nixpkgs-unstable). The top-level Nix expression of the channel is now an attribute set, the attributes of which are the individual channels (e.g., {nixpkgs_unstable = ...; strategoxt_unstable = ...}). This makes attribute paths ("nix-env -qaA" and "nix-env -iA") more sensible, e.g., "nix-env -iA nixpkgs_unstable.subversion".
2006-11-18	* Show more progress.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-09-25	* In `nix-channel --update', skip manifests that assume a Nix store at	Eelco Dolstra
	a different location than the user's. This makes channels usable as a source deployment mechanism for people who install Nix under non-standard prefixes. (NIX-57)
2006-09-25	* Clean up calls to system().	Eelco Dolstra

2006-05-08	* Remove old manifests in `nix-channel --update'.	Eelco Dolstra

2006-02-01	* Add @bindir@.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-04-07	* Get rid of fetchurl, we don't need it anymore.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-03-03	* Channel fix.	Eelco Dolstra

2005-02-17	* Fix nix-channel.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Add `--help' flag; fixes NIX-5. * Add `--remove' flag; fixes NIX-6. * Add `--list' flag.
2004-12-20	* Place manifests in /nix/var/nix/manifests.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Use the new patch downloader.
2004-12-20	* Sync with changed substitute mechanism.	Eelco Dolstra
	* Accept the NarHash line. * Clear substitutes in `nix-channel --update'.
2004-11-04	* Better error messages.	Eelco Dolstra

2004-10-20	* Register channels as roots of the garbage collector (in	Eelco Dolstra
	$(localstatedir)/nix/gcroots/channels). * In setuid installations, create gcroots/tmp and gcroots/channels group-writable.
2004-04-21	* Channels. These allow you to stay current with an evolving set of	Eelco Dolstra
	Nix expressions. To subscribe to a channel (needs to be done only once): nix-channel --add \ http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/nixpkgs-unstable This just adds the given URL to ~/.nix-channels (which can also be edited manually). To update from all channels: nix-channel --update This fetches the latest expressions and pulls cache manifests. The default Nix expression (~/.nix-defexpr) is made to point to the conjunction of the expressions downloaded from all channels. So to update all installed derivations in the current user environment: nix-channel --update nix-env --upgrade '*' If you are really courageous, you can put this in a cronjob or something. You can subscribe to multiple channels. It is not entirely clear what happens when there are name clashes between derivations from different channels. From nix-env/main.cc it appears that the one with the lowest (highest?) hash will be used, which is pretty meaningless.