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Eelco Dolstra fe241ece29 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-07-18 10:47:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c01fb4d68 Update Nix 1.1 release notes 2012-07-17 10:06:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e4d6bcb6cd Update release notes 2012-07-11 18:52:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 8da6772ed4 Update release notes 2012-06-23 14:59:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 2c26985835 Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logs
Fixes #26.
2012-05-29 16:42:05 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 587b408210 Set release date 2012-05-11 17:40:58 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra a58efdb69b Update the release notes 2012-05-09 19:05:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4e624849b6 * Added a command ‘nix-store --print-env $drvpath’ that prints out the
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.
2012-01-17 23:07:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e6cb3d0a0d * Added a command ‘nix-store --verify-paths PATHS’ to check whether
the contents of any of the given store paths have been modified.
  E.g.

    $ nix-store --verify-path $(nix-store -qR /var/run/current-system)
    path `/nix/store/m2smyiwbxidlprfxfz4rjlvz2c3mg58y-etc' was modified! expected hash `fc87e271c5fdf179b47939b08ad13440493805584b35e3014109d04d8436e7b8', got `20f1a47281b3c0cbe299ce47ad5ca7340b20ab34246426915fce0ee9116483aa'

  All paths are checked; the exit code is 1 if any path has been
  modified, 0 otherwise.
2011-09-06 12:06:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1ecc97b6bd * Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angle
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 16:05:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0a623a10c7 * Allow a default value in attribute selection by writing
x.y.z or default

  (as originally proposed in
  https://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-September/002989.html).

  For instance, an expression like

    stdenv.lib.attrByPath ["features" "ckSched"] false args

  can now be written as

    args.features.ckSched or false
2011-07-13 12:19:57 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 5c9e9f732d Add support for the build-timeout' and --timeout' options. 2011-06-30 15:19:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 26def5392f * Document Boehm GC support. 2010-10-29 14:44:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 86f65edf4e * Document --cores in the manual. 2010-08-17 07:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 12721a3a9a * Nix 0.16 release notes. 2010-08-16 12:38:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c4cfb392d3 2010-03-17 10:08:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e3d98eb41 * Release notes for Nix 0.15. 2010-03-16 13:12:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f36b7e7579 2010-02-04 14:00:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d8a85b8f5 * Updated the release notes. 2010-02-03 11:00:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3a78af1e24 * Release notes. 2009-12-09 21:02:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 268d90a03e * Various updates. 2009-11-05 09:07:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1ff8758f76 * Manual updates. 2009-11-04 16:52:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0f79ad47c5 2009-09-25 12:36:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c6cb792d48 2009-05-26 16:32:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8b2a01a8c2 * Release notes. 2009-04-14 12:02:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c202523e53 2008-11-20 12:01:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 63ccd72496 * Updated the manual. 2008-11-19 17:00:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 07d3a38726 * Remove references to Berkeley DB, including most of the
troubleshooting section.  W00t.
2008-11-19 11:58:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f5325d292d * Release notes. 2008-11-19 10:59:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fa791116a3 * Get rid of nix-pack-closure / nix-unpack-closure, they're redundant. 2008-11-18 14:43:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 72f3ea7358 * Moved some stuff to the Nixpkgs manual.
* Updated the release notes.
2008-08-05 11:03:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7cd88b1dec * Generalised the dependencyClosure primop to builtins.genericClosure,
which is hopefully more useful.
* New primops: length, mul, div.
2008-07-11 13:29:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d567baabbd * Export the nix-env derivation name parsing and version comparison
logic through the `parseDrvName' and `compareVersions' primops.
  This will allow expressions to easily check whether some dependency
  is a specific needed version or falls in some version range.  See
  tests/lang/eval-okay-versions.nix for examples.
2008-07-01 10:10:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 66c51dc215 * nix-store --dump-db / --load-db to dump/load the Nix DB.
* nix-store --register-validity: option to supply the content hash of
  each path.
* Removed compatibility with Nix <= 0.7 stores.
2008-01-29 18:17:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d4117859d6 2007-12-31 16:57:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 454f571f87 2007-12-31 01:22:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c82983010 2007-12-31 01:17:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra dedd62dd0c * More release notes. 2007-12-31 00:08:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 59707975a3 * Documented indented string literals.
* Release notes.
2007-12-30 23:36:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6d6c68c0d2 * Added a new kind of multi-line string literal delimited by two
single quotes.  Example (from NixOS):

    job = ''
      start on network-interfaces

      start script

        rm -f /var/run/opengl-driver
        ${if videoDriver == "nvidia"        
          then "ln -sf ${nvidiaDrivers} /var/run/opengl-driver"
          else if cfg.driSupport
          then "ln -sf ${mesa} /var/run/opengl-driver"
          else ""
        }

        rm -f /var/log/slim.log

      end script
    '';

  This style has two big advantages:

  - \, ' and " aren't special, only '' and ${.  So you get a lot less
    escaping in shell scripts / configuration files in Nixpkgs/NixOS.
    The delimiter '' is rare in scripts (and can usually be written as
    "").  ${ is also fairly rare.

    Other delimiters such as <<...>>, {{...}} and <|...|> were also
    considered but this one appears to have the fewest drawbacks
    (thanks Martin).

  - Indentation is intelligently stripped so that multi-line strings
    can follow the nesting structure of the containing Nix
    expression.  E.g. in the example above 6 spaces are stripped from
    the start of each line.  This prevents unnecessary indentation in
    generated files (which sometimes even breaks things).

  See tests/lang/eval-okay-ind-string.nix for some examples.
2007-11-30 16:48:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1511aa11ce * Documented some of the more obscure derivation attributes (including
fixed-output derivations).
2007-11-01 13:28:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bfea7b1f35 * Make the --prebuilt-only' / -b' option work not just for queries
but installations/upgrades as well.  So `nix-env -ub \*' will
  upgrade only those packages for which a substitute is available (or
  to be precise, it will upgrade each package to the highest version
  for which a substitute is available).
2007-10-29 14:31:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra dc6f373842 * Delete the chroot directory automatically.
* Removed some debug messages.
2007-10-27 16:06:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8a9fe6c11c * Manpage for nix-copy-closure. 2007-09-19 14:01:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b47da5ea21 2007-05-16 22:07:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a9d15d4f43 * nix-env -i: instead of breaking package ties by version, break them
by priority and version install.  That is, if there are multiple
  packages with the same name, then pick the package with the highest
  priority, and only use the version if there are multiple packages
  with the same priority.

  This makes it possible to mark specific versions/variant in Nixpkgs
  more or less desirable than others.  A typical example would be a
  beta version of some package (e.g., "gcc-4.2.0rc1") which should not
  be installed even though it is the highest version, except when it
  is explicitly selected (e.g., "nix-env -i gcc-4.2.0rc1").

* Idem for nix-env -u, only the semantics are a bit trickier since we
  also need to take into account the priority of the currently
  installed package (we never upgrade to a lower priority, unless
  --always is given).
2007-05-01 20:33:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bd1f66453a * `nix-env -q --xml --meta' to show all meta attributes. 2007-05-01 11:30:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 89c1d2b202 * Package flag "keep" that prevents a package from being removed from
a user environment by an install or upgrade action.  This is
  particularly useful if you have a version installed that you don't
  want to upgrade (e.g., because the newer versions are broken).
  Example:

    $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run
    (dry run; not doing anything)
    upgrading `zapping-0.9.6' to `zapping-0.10cvs6'

    $ nix-env --set-flag keep true zapping

    $ nix-env -u zapping --dry-run
    (dry run; not doing anything)

  However, "-e" will still uninstall the package.  (Maybe we should
  require the keep flag to be explicitly set to false before it can be
  uninstalled.)
2007-04-27 23:48:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a46db5d013 * Package conflict resolution through priority levels. If there is a
user environment collission between two packages due to overlapping
  file names, then a package with a higher priority will overwrite the
  symlinks of a package with a lower priority.  E.g.,

    $ nix-env --set-flag priority 5 gcc
    $ nix-env --set-flag priority 10 binutils

  gives gcc a higher priority than binutils (higher number = lower
  priority).
2007-04-27 23:28:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b7f0f65c19 * nix-env -q now has a flag --prebuilt-only (-b<) that causes nix-env
to show only those derivations whose output is already in the Nix
  store or that can be substituted (i.e., downloaded from somewhere).
  In other words, it shows the packages that can be installed “quickly”,
  i.e., don’t need to be built from source.
2007-04-26 14:20:31 +00:00