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2012-01-03* Refactoring: Get rid of a few subdirectories in corepkgs/, and someEelco 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.
2011-12-01* Allow '<nixexpr>' syntax to be used in nix-instantiate, nix-buildEelco Dolstra
and nix-env, e.g., $ nix-env -f '<nixpkgs>' -i patchelf or $ nix-build '<nixos/tests>' -A login.test
2011-08-31* Eliminate all uses of the global variable ‘store’ from libstore.Eelco Dolstra
This should also fix: nix-instantiate: ./../boost/shared_ptr.hpp:254: T* boost::shared_ptr<T>::operator->() const [with T = nix::StoreAPI]: Assertion `px != 0' failed. which was caused by hashDerivationModulo() calling the ‘store’ object (during store upgrades) before openStore() assigned it.
2011-08-06* Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angleEelco Dolstra
brackets, e.g. import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib> are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in the search path. This allows us to get rid of hacks like import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib" The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable, e.g., $ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ... If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is lazily thrown.
2011-08-06* Refactoring: move parseExprFromFile() and parseExprFromString() intoEelco Dolstra
the EvalState class.
2011-04-11* `nix-env -ub' (`--prebuilt-only') didn't really work because itEelco Dolstra
checked too soon whether substitutes are available. That is, it did so for every available package, rather than those matching installed packages. This was very slow and subject to assertion failures. So do the check much later. Idem for `nix-env -qab' and `nix-env -ib'.
2010-11-16* Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra
2010-10-28* Handle out of memory condition.Eelco Dolstra
2010-10-24* When allocating an attribute set, reserve enough space for allEelco Dolstra
elements. This prevents the vector from having to resize itself.
2010-10-24* Keep attribute sets in sorted order to speed up attribute lookups.Eelco Dolstra
* Simplify the representation of attributes in the AST. * Change the behaviour of listToAttrs() in case of duplicate names.
2010-10-23* Remove allocValues().Eelco Dolstra
2010-10-22* Store Value nodes outside of attribute sets. I.e., Attr now storesEelco Dolstra
a pointer to a Value, rather than the Value directly. This improves the effectiveness of garbage collection a lot: if the Value is stored inside the set directly, then any live pointer to the Value causes all other attributes in the set to be live as well.
2010-10-22* Make building against the Boehm GC a configure option.Eelco Dolstra
2010-10-20* Use the Boehm garbage collector to reclaim unused memory in the NixEelco Dolstra
expression evaluator.
2010-10-04* Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra
2010-09-14* Doh. Remove debug message.Eelco Dolstra
2010-08-04* Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra
2010-08-04* Set the default system filter to "*". This ensures that (forEelco Dolstra
instance) "nix-env -i wine" works on x86_64-linux, even though Wine is built on i686-linux. In the event that there are multiple matching derivations, prefer those built for the current system.
2010-06-21* Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra
2010-05-30* Remove an accidentally committed debug statement.Eelco Dolstra
2010-05-12* Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra
2010-05-07* Keep track of the source positions of attributes.Eelco Dolstra
2010-05-06* Store attribute positions in the AST and report duplicate attributeEelco Dolstra
errors with position info. * For all positions, use the position of the first character of the first token, rather than the last character of the first token plus one.
2010-04-27(no commit message)Eelco Dolstra
2010-04-21* Store user environment manifests as a Nix expression inEelco Dolstra
$out/manifest.nix rather than as an ATerm. (Hm, I thought I committed this two days ago...)
2010-04-19* Drop the dependency on the ATerm library.Eelco Dolstra
2010-04-19* Don't use the ATerm library for parsing/printing .drv files.Eelco Dolstra
2010-04-19* Added parsing of manifests in ATerm format.Eelco Dolstra
2010-04-19* Refactoring: move the user environment stuff into its own module.Eelco Dolstra
2010-04-16* _combineChannels shouldn't be an integer.Eelco Dolstra
2010-04-16* In an nested `with' where the inner with is a variable (`with ...;Eelco Dolstra
with someVar; ...'), the contents of the variable would be clobbered. (The attributes in the outer `with' were added to the variable.)
2010-04-14* Get nix-env to compile again.Eelco Dolstra
2010-04-12* Don't use ATerms for the abstract syntax trees anymore. NotEelco Dolstra
finished yet.
2010-04-07* Update autoCallFunction() and findAlongAttrPath().Eelco Dolstra
2010-03-31* Get nix-env to compile.Eelco Dolstra
2010-03-02* When using the included sqlite/aterm libraries, build withEelco Dolstra
--enable-shared. * In libutil/libstore/libexpr etc., link against sqlite and aterm. * Some more header file hygiene.
2010-02-24* `helpText' is now zero-terminated.Eelco Dolstra
2010-02-24* ADDITIONAL_NETWORK_LIBS -> LIBS.Eelco Dolstra
2010-02-24* Add ${sqlite_lib} everywhere. Just adding it in `libstore' doesn'tEelco Dolstra
work on x86_64 when sqlite is compiled statically.
2009-11-06* Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases.Eelco Dolstra
2009-10-13* Give a useful error message when an evaluation error occurs whileEelco Dolstra
trying to upgrade a package.
2009-10-08Added optional parameter which adds -lnsl -lsocket to make the Nix package ↵Sander van der Burg
manager work on OpenSolaris
2009-07-02* Replace newlines in table output with spaces.Eelco Dolstra
2009-06-30* Support integers and lists of strings in meta fields. This isEelco Dolstra
useful for fields like meta.maintainers, meta.priority (which can be a proper integer now) and even meta.license (if there are multiple licenses).
2008-09-18* Fix `--from-profile'.Eelco Dolstra
2008-09-02* When writing the user environment manifest, filter out non-stringEelco Dolstra
attributes from the meta attribute. Not doing so caused nix-env to barf on the "psi" package, which has a meta.function attribute, the textual serialisation of which causes a gigantic string to be produced --- so big that it causes nix-env to run out of memory. Note however that "meta" really only should contain strings. meta.function should be passthru.function.
2008-08-25* Minor simplification.Eelco Dolstra
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.
2008-08-04* Use optimistic profile locking for nix-env operations like `-i' andEelco Dolstra
`-u'. Instead of acquiring an exclusive lock on the profile for the entire duration of the operation, we just perform the operation optimistically (without an exclusive lock), and check at the end whether the profile changed while we were busy (i.e., the symlink target changed). If so, the operation is restarted. Restarting is generally cheap, since the build results are still in the Nix store. Most of the time, only the user environment has to be rebuilt.
2008-08-04* `nix-env --set': support --dry-run.Eelco Dolstra