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Eelco Dolstra db2275cb99 * Oops, the "I" bit in "nix-env -qas" was broken. Reported by Nicolae Vintila. 2006-01-26 23:18:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1029716a8a * Don't show cycles, they're not very useful. 2006-01-19 15:35:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e4d4969ae9 * New tools nix-pack-closure and nix-unpack-closure. These provide a
useful way to transfer the closure of a store path to another
  machine.

  These commands provide functionality previously possible through
  `nix-push --copy'.  However, they are much more convenient in many
  situations (though possibly less efficient).
  
  Example:
  $ nix-pack-closure /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0 > svn.closure
  (on another machine:)
  $ nix-unpack-closure < svn.closure

  Note that Subversion is added to the store, but not installed into a
  user environment.  One should do `nix-env -i
  /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0' for that.

  Another example: copy the application Azureus to the machine
  `scratchy' through ssh:
  
  $ nix-pack-closure $(which azureus) | ssh scratchy nix-unpack-closure
2006-01-12 15:17:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b527901ae * dirOf: return "/", not "", for paths in the root directory. Fixes NIX-26. 2006-01-09 14:52:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 04be39734f * Resolve all symlink components in the location of the temporary
build directory (TMPDIR, i.e., /tmp).  Fixes NIX-26.
2006-01-08 17:16:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0f8d3c871b * More GCC 2.95 compatibility. 2005-12-25 11:29:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 52d20ef124 * Hack around a GCC 2.95 bug. 2005-12-25 02:02:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1440419b45 * GCC 2.95 compatibility. 2005-12-24 23:32:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1d2460ee5d * Documentation fixes. 2005-12-24 23:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f96d2dea26 * Added a flag --ignore-liveness' to nix-store --delete'. It
deletes a path even if it is reachable from a root.  However, it
  won't delete a path that still has referrers (since that would
  violate store invariants).

  Don't try this at home.  It's a useful hack for recovering from
  certain situations in a somewhat clean way (e.g., holes in closures
  due to disk corruption).
2005-12-23 21:36:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4b9e7f59ca * Revived the old "nix-store --delete" operation that deletes the
specified paths from the Nix store.  However, this operation is
  safe: it refuses to delete anything that the garbage collector
  wouldn't delete.
2005-12-23 21:08:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3c5619c7e4 * Begin release notes. 2005-12-15 21:11:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 530b27df1e * `nix-store --gc' prints out the number of bytes freed on stdout
(even when it is interrupted by a signal).
2005-12-15 21:11:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5144f750c4 * Typo. 2005-12-15 17:04:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b1eed6b586 * Split the database upgrade into multiple transactions to prevent
Berkeley DB from running out of locks.
2005-12-15 16:53:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 11a8dc76d6 * Doh! 2005-12-15 13:45:10 +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 d87549c1c7 * Automatically delete the old referers table. 2005-12-12 19:14:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8463f27d8c * Fix NIX-23: quadratic complexity in maintaining the referers
mapping.  The referer table is replaced by a referrer table (note
  spelling fix) that stores each referrer separately.  That is,
  instead of having

    referer[P] = {Q_1, Q_2, Q_3, ...}

  we store

    referer[(P, Q_1)] = ""
    referer[(P, Q_2)] = ""
    referer[(P, Q_3)] = ""
    ...

  To find the referrers of P, we enumerate over the keys with a value
  lexicographically greater than P.  This requires the referrer table
  to be stored as a B-Tree rather than a hash table.

  (The tuples (P, Q) are stored as P + null-byte + Q.)

  Old Nix databases are upgraded automatically to the new schema.
2005-12-12 18:24:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 18bbcb1214 * Add a test to demonstrate the quadratic complexity of referrer
(de)registration, in particular garbage collection (NIX-23).
2005-12-11 19:25:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a33b561a6b * Use Berkeley DB 4.4's process registry feature to recover from
crashed Nix instances, and toss out our own recovery code.
2005-12-09 22:55:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra eb268a7f95 * Apply the patch. 2005-12-08 22:14:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra dfffd92568 * A patch to make the DB_REGISTER feature work when debug info is not on. 2005-12-08 18:18:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 760264bffe * Require Berkeley DB 4.4.
* Checkpoint after an upgrade.
2005-12-06 15:00:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra dc528128cc * FreeBSD compatibility fix. 2005-11-17 13:58:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 44409f52c1 * "Fix" the test, since we cannot feasibly support the intended semantics. 2005-11-17 11:58:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b7f008fc35 * Did something useful while waiting at IAD: reference scanning is now
much faster.
2005-11-16 08:27:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9311ab76a5 * Install signal handlers for SIGTERM and SIGHUP. This ensures that
Nix is properly shut down when it receives those signals.  In
  particular this ensures that killing the garbage collector doesn't
  cause a subsequent database recovery.
2005-11-04 15:34:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5bf939885a * Memoise checkVarDefs since internally produced terms (i.e., not the
result of parsing) can have very heavy sharing, causing exponential
  complexity if we naively recurse into them.  ATerms are graphs, not
  trees!
2005-11-04 15:17:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1f285cf556 * Scoping bug in `with'. 2005-11-04 14:50:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 221c79013f * Turn off build hooks in nix-push because of an impurity (NIX-21). 2005-10-29 18:17:45 +00:00
Rob Vermaas f0856fd905 * Repair the referers table from the references table. 2005-10-29 15:44:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 92d599c6a7 * Prevent uids from being used for more than one build
simultaneously.  We do this using exclusive locks on uid files in
  /nix/var/nix/userpool, e.g., /nix/var/nix/userpool/123 for uid 123.
2005-10-20 16:58:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e932c40f8e * Oops. Fixed-output derivations were broken. 2005-10-19 14:27:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1b43fbd8e4 * Oops, that should be Berkeley DB 4.3. Reported by Gerco Ballintijn. 2005-10-18 14:09:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 13b089c890 * Also kill all processes of the build user after the build. This is
critical to prevent certain kinds of 0wnage.
2005-10-17 17:43:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f1b3a418fa * Before starting a build under some uid, kill all current processes
running under that uid.
2005-10-17 17:35:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 439823ae80 * Check that the build result is owned by the build user, and that
nobody else has write permission to the build result.  This catches
  most hack attempts.
2005-10-17 16:59:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ef574e5d0 * Don't use FIFOs to make Nix create the output path on behalf of the
builder.  Instead, require that the Nix store has sticky permission
  (S_ISVTX); everyone can created files in the Nix store, but they
  cannot delete, rename or modify files created by others.
2005-10-17 16:52:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 32282abcea * Beginning of secure multi-user Nix stores. If Nix is started as
root (or setuid root), then builds will be performed under one of
  the users listed in the `build-users' configuration variables.  This
  is to make it impossible to influence build results externally,
  allowing locally built derivations to be shared safely between
  users (see ASE-2005 paper).

  To do: only one builder should be active per build user.
2005-10-17 15:33:24 +00:00
Armijn Hemel 15ff877438 add @coreutils@ to correctly use coreutils to create a profile. This is needed
for NixOS, where we might not know our PATH in advance.
2005-10-11 17:30:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0f133ae8d2 * Use ATerm 2.4.2. 2005-10-11 12:41:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra dfbf520ec2 * Swap the system and version comparion columns. 2005-10-06 15:51:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 62412c5874 * Document `nix-env --compare-versions'. 2005-10-06 15:51:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra cec2be64f3 * Only colorise if we are attached to a terminal. 2005-10-06 15:01:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b87b9c0d1f * New query option: --compare-versions' or -c' to compare installed
versions to available versions, or vice versa.

  For example, the following compares installed versions to available
  versions:

    $ nix-env -qc
    autoconf-2.59            = 2.59
    automake-1.9.4           < 1.9.6
    f-spot-0.0.10            - ?
    firefox-1.0.4            < 1.0.7
    ...

  I.e., there are newer versions available (in the current default Nix
  expression) for Automake and Firefox, but not for Autoconf, and
  F-Spot is missing altogether.

  Conversely, the available versions can be compared to the installed
  versions:

    $ nix-env -qac
    autoconf-2.59                  = 2.59
    automake-1.9.6                 > 1.9.4
    bash-3.0                       - ?
    firefox-1.0.7                  > 1.0.4
    ...

  Note that bash is available but no version of it is installed.

  If multiple versions are available for comparison, then the highest
  is used.  E.g., if Subversion 1.2.0 is installed, and Subversion
  1.1.4 and 1.2.3 are available, then `nix-env -qc' will print `<
  1.2.3', not `> 1.1.4'.

  If higher versions are available, the version column is printed in
  red (using ANSI escape codes).
2005-10-06 14:44:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0e0041b2b6 * Update NEWS in the root directory properly. 2005-10-05 13:01:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0e38578433 * log2xml -> nix-log2xml. 2005-10-05 09:42:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d47e03fccd * Install the XSL stylesheets for log to html conversion. 2005-10-05 09:37:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ed4de220d2 * Use "source" instead of ".". 2005-09-28 09:00:07 +00:00