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Eelco Dolstra 8824d60fe5 * Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. Many
(Linux) machines no longer maintain the atime because it's too
  expensive, and on the machines where --use-atime is useful (like the
  buildfarm), reading the atimes on the entire Nix store takes way too
  much time to make it practical.
2009-11-20 17:12:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d413612029 * Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries. 2009-07-14 14:58:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 63ccd72496 * Updated the manual. 2008-11-19 17:00:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6bdecfacbb * Documented a bunch of nix-store commands. 2007-12-31 01:52:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8a9fe6c11c * Manpage for nix-copy-closure. 2007-09-19 14:01:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9e975458b4 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we
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).
2007-08-12 00:29:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 52d03276dd * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl. 2007-02-05 12:10:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fe15f991e3 * Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database. 2006-11-30 11:24:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra beee18de88 * Document nix-store --delete. 2006-10-05 23:13:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra eff573f563 * Work around a weird bug in the manpage generation. 2006-10-05 23:01:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9e08f5efe1 * Documented nix-store --dump / --restore. 2006-10-05 22:57:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 84e6c43e85 * Documented nix-hash. 2006-10-02 22:11:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1a9a1f2768 * Convert to DocBook 5.
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-21 16:05:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ab5c6bb3a3 * Change referer' to referrer' throughout. In particular, the
nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have
  been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old
  ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-12-13 21:04:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 88dea78cdf * Crazy: don't use real hashes of real components in examples, since
they cause Nix builds to have unnecessary retained dependences
  (e.g., on Subversion).
2005-05-09 09:58:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 82d771f6e6 * Manual updates. 2005-04-10 20:54:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fb45b0f548 * Document nix-channel. 2005-04-09 17:16:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8b70f138e0 * Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'
options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-08 13:00:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b9d8ecbc6a * More doc updates. 2005-04-07 15:51:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 57d023a184 * More manual updates. 2005-04-07 10:47:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f1ae10b992 * Build hook documentation.
* nix-store options.
2005-04-07 09:36:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 806b91f104 * GC docs. 2005-04-07 08:17:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 128c174295 * Manual updates. 2005-04-05 15:28:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 229252941a * Some GC documentation. 2005-04-05 11:30:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 67eff20906 * Manual updates. 2005-03-17 10:30:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ad3121a52d * Documented common environment variables. 2005-03-16 16:45:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 693ff4f6bf * Some more updates. 2005-03-15 15:42:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e301334696 * XInclude all the way. 2005-03-15 13:55:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2cd590d96c * Instead of &mdash; use the actual Unicode character. By the way, to
edit the manual, you should have something like

    (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.xml\\>" 'utf-8)

  in your ~/.emacs.
2004-10-18 12:22:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra eb233e728f * `--min-age' flag in nix-store and nix-collect-garbage to only delete
unreachable paths that haven't been used for N hours.  For instance,
  `nix-collect-garbage --min-age 168' only deletes paths that haven't
  been accessed in the last week.

  This is useful for instance in the build farm where many derivations
  can be shared between consecutive builds, and we wouldn't want a
  garbage collect to throw them all away.  We could of course register
  them as roots, but then we'd to unregister them at some point, which
  would be a pain to manage.  The `--min-age' flag gives us a sort of
  MRU caching scheme.

  BUG: this really shouldn't be in gc.cc since that violates
  mechanism/policy separation.
2004-08-25 16:54:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fdec72c6cc * `nix-collect-garbage' now actually performs a garbage collection, it
doesn't just print the set of paths that should be deleted.  So
  there is no more need to pipe the result into `nix-store --delete'
  (which doesn't even exist anymore).
2004-08-25 15:39:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d9f30fe7c7 * Sort `nix-env -q' output by derivation name.
* `--version' flag for all commands.
* Manual updates.
2004-02-02 10:51:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra cdb50886f4 * Typos. 2004-01-22 09:35:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ff9af107d3 * Option `-B' to always show the output of builders, regardless of
verbosity level.
2004-01-13 16:35:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 46a71c857c * Option --force-realise' in nix-store --query'. 2004-01-09 14:18:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 30b31a8f61 * Start of nix-env reference.
* Some CSS tweaks.
2004-01-08 16:56:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b594215531 * Manual updates. 2004-01-08 15:01:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra df7a718786 * Man pages in sections. 2003-12-21 21:57:09 +00:00
Renamed from doc/manual/nix-store-reference.xml (Browse further)