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Eelco Dolstra c364d5d1e3 * Made the garbage collector a lot faster. It no longer computes the
complete set of live and dead paths before starting the actual
  deletion, but determines liveness on demand.  I.e. for any path in
  the store, it first tries to delete all the referrers, and then the
  path itself.  This means that the collector can start deleting paths
  almost immediately.
2009-11-23 16:34:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4f7e5f5810 * Don't create /nix/var/nix/gcroots/{tmp,channels}, since they don't
seem to be used anymore.
2009-11-23 12:48:54 +00:00
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 997db91e07 * Don't pass -K. It should really inherit the setting of the calling
Nix though.
2009-11-17 16:22:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3392d32e8b * In nix-pull/nix-channel, create the manifests directory if it
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.
2009-11-13 10:08:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 327a232c85 * Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases. 2009-11-06 01:15:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c60d796f04 * Version bump. 2009-11-05 22:23:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e8bad77c7c 2009-11-05 15:20:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7680904839 * Build on Karmic. 2009-11-05 14:53:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 58f3338bfa * The Nix .deb package depends on curl. 2009-11-05 14:40:42 +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 8520542071 * When building in a chroot, make a copy of a file if hard-linking
fails.  This is likely to happen after a `nix-store --optimise',
  because some files may have 32000 links (NIX-111).
2009-10-22 08:28:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6b9f6b0222 * Remove a prototype for a function that no longer exists. 2009-10-22 08:12:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra deb342fb08 * builtins.trace: in the common case that the value is a string, then
show the string, not the ATerm, so we get `trace: bla' instead of
  `trace: Str("bla",[])'.
2009-10-22 08:10:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 437077c39d * Added a primop unsafeDiscardOutputDependency needed by Disnix to
pass derivation paths to a builder without actually building them.
2009-10-21 15:05:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f7d7bc1de * Give a useful error message when an evaluation error occurs while
trying to upgrade a package.
2009-10-13 09:30:17 +00:00
Sander van der Burg 53a4981fa2 Added optional parameter which adds -lnsl -lsocket to make the Nix package manager work on OpenSolaris 2009-10-08 14:50:37 +00:00
Peter Simons 18f0ff003d configure.ac: use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE to determine how to enable 64-bit file size support
Defining -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 works on most platforms, but not on all (i.e.
Solaris). Also, the Autoconf macro offers the user a switch to disable the
functionality in case of problems.
2009-10-06 09:14:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 96f1517831 * Support platforms that don't have O_ASYNC (e.g. OpenSolaris
apparently).
2009-09-30 11:32:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1a8f8fd86f * OpenSolaris compatibility. 2009-09-30 09:54:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0f79ad47c5 2009-09-25 12:36:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c7057fc1f2 * And some more. 2009-09-24 07:39:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 193f59e077 * Fix a build failure on Fedora 11. rename() needs <stdio.h>. 2009-09-24 07:21:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0ae2be5692 2009-09-24 07:05:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1332dd1ed3 * tryEval shouldn't catch all exceptions of type Error, since not all
of them leave the evaluator in a continuable state.  Also, it should
  be less chatty.
2009-09-23 19:19:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 63a17d4bd5 * Don't build against BDB on Cygwin, it's been broken for unknown
reasons for a while (e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/79164).
2009-09-23 18:52:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 676e07902e * Darwin hack. 2009-09-23 18:04:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 64e89980e8 * Create some state directories automatically as a convenience. 2009-09-23 17:05:51 +00:00
Rob Vermaas 48b58617e9 * include wait.h for WEXITSTATUS 2009-09-23 12:57:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 51ad64cc07 * Use xmllint (>= 2.7.4) for RelaxNG validation instead of Jing. 2009-09-18 11:45:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra df05a759e4 * In "make init-state", ignore errors creating /nix/store. Hack to
get the Debian VM builds to work (where /nix/store is a mount point
  containing the store of the host).
2009-09-18 11:01:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d3de71efc9 2009-09-17 17:44:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e1df4ef73c 2009-09-17 17:02:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 86408b3f47 * build-remote.pl: Pick machines in a round-robin order, rather than
giving jobs to the first machine until it hits its job limit, then
  the second machine and so on.  This should improve utilisation of
  the Hydra build farm a lot.  Also take an optional speed factor
  into account to cause fast machines to be preferred over slower
  machines with a similar load.
2009-09-17 15:48:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 57e0d73c77 * build-remote.pl: allow the system type to be a comma-separated list
of system types.  Don't treat the x86_64-linux system type
  specially.
2009-09-17 13:51:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0dbd4638e0 * Two primops: builtins.intersectAttrs and builtins.functionArgs.
intersectAttrs returns the (right-biased) intersection between two
  attribute sets, e.g. every attribute from the second set that also
  exists in the first.  functionArgs returns the set of attributes
  expected by a function.

  The main goal of these is to allow the elimination of most of
  all-packages.nix.  Most package instantiations in all-packages.nix
  have this form:

    foo = import ./foo.nix {
      inherit a b c;
    };

  With intersectAttrs and functionArgs, this can be written as:

    foo = callPackage (import ./foo.nix) { };

  where

   callPackage = f: args:
     f ((builtins.intersectAttrs (builtins.functionArgs f) pkgs) // args);

  I.e., foo.nix is called with all attributes from "pkgs" that it
  actually needs (e.g., pkgs.a, pkgs.b and pkgs.c).  (callPackage can
  do any other generic package-level stuff we might want, such as
  applying makeOverridable.)  Of course, the automatically supplied
  arguments can be overriden if needed, e.g.

    foo = callPackage (import ./foo.nix) {
      c = c_version_2;
    };

  but for the vast majority of packages, this won't be needed.

  The advantages are to reduce the amount of typing needed to add a
  dependency (from three sites to two), and to reduce the number of
  trivial commits to all-packages.nix.  For the former, there have
  been two previous attempts:

    - Use "args: with args;" in the package's function definition.
      This however obscures the actual expected arguments of a
      function, which is very bad.

    - Use "{ arg1, arg2, ... }:" in the package's function definition
      (i.e. use the ellipis "..." to allow arbitrary additional
      arguments), and then call the function with all of "pkgs" as an
      argument.  But this inhibits error detection if you call it with
      an misspelled (or obsolete) argument.
2009-09-15 13:01:46 +00:00
Michael Raskin 3bca8931e8 Adding tryEval builtin. It allows to catch presence of errors in an expression. 2009-08-25 16:06:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5e9a4e5101 2009-08-03 13:32:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9b46d1ae6f 2009-08-03 12:24:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 20b6f94b65 * nix-build: pass the --show-trace flag. 2009-07-15 09:10:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d413612029 * Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries. 2009-07-14 14:58:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1f169f43b3 * Leave out the collaborators / revision history page. 2009-07-10 13:42:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5e2e2f10ef 2009-07-10 11:48:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c6890d6b5c * Replace newlines in table output with spaces. 2009-07-02 08:52:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 749dd97a54 * Support integers and lists of strings in meta fields. This is
useful for fields like meta.maintainers, meta.priority (which can be
  a proper integer now) and even meta.license (if there are multiple
  licenses).
2009-06-30 15:53:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f2c3fc5191 * Don't show trace information by default (`--show-trace' to enable).
NixOS evaluation errors in particular look intimidating and
  generally aren't very useful.  Ideally the builtins.throw messages
  should be self-contained.
2009-06-30 13:28:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a2fc3a53ba * Highlight URLs containing "=" properly. 2009-06-18 10:04:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d53603c928 * Attributes names in attrsets can contain dots now. 2009-06-18 09:56:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 14bc3ce3d6 * Canonicalise timestamps in the Nix store to 1 (1970-01-01 00:00:01
UTC) rather than 0 (00:00:00).  1 is a better choice because some
  programs use 0 as a special value.  For instance, the Template
  Toolkit uses a timestamp of 0 to denote the non-existence of a file,
  so it barfs on files in the Nix store (see
  template-toolkit-nix-store.patch in Nixpkgs).  Similarly, Maya 2008
  fails to load script directories with a timestamp of 0 and can't be
  patched because it's closed source.

  This will also shut up those "implausibly old time stamp" GNU tar
  warnings.
2009-06-13 16:30:58 +00:00