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Eelco Dolstra 6fedb7aa0f * Restore SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL when running the builder. This prevents
subtle and often hard-to-reproduce bugs where programs in pipes
  either barf with a "Broken pipe" message or not, depending on the
  exact timing conditions.  This particularly happened in GNU M4 (and
  Bison, which uses M4).
2008-11-14 15:46:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a519bb0635 * Some somewhat ad hoc mechanism to allow the build farm to monitor
build progress.
2008-11-12 11:08:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 96598e7b06 * Pass the --no-build-output flag to the daemon. 2008-11-11 15:11:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4166b11a53 * Add /dev/pts to the default nix.conf. 2008-11-11 14:59:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b7c839b4e * Typo. 2008-11-11 14:58:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 709b55ee02 * Put the chroots under /nix/var/nix/chroots to reduce the risk of
disasters involving `rm -rf' on bind mounts.  Will try the
  definitive fix (per-process mounts, apparently possible via the
  CLONE_NEWNS flag in clone()) some other time.
2008-10-29 15:34:48 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès c98ea254dc libstore: Always mount `/dev/pts' individually.
This fixes problems such as Tcl's PTY handling:

  ERROR: The system has no more ptys.  Ask your system administrator to
  create more.
2008-10-16 21:04:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9d6d50269b * Bug fix for building on some old installations (contributed by Pjotr). 2008-10-16 14:16:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fa61ee70ee * Fix `--from-profile'. 2008-09-18 09:08:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f32fef1b07 * GC option `--max-atime' that specifies an upper limit to the last
accessed time of paths that may be deleted.  Anything more recently
  used won't be deleted.  The time is specified in time_t,
  e.g. seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC; use `date +%s' to
  convert to time_t from the command line. 

  Example: to delete everything that hasn't been used in the last two
  months:

  $ nix-store --gc -v --max-atime $(date +%s -d "2 months ago")
2008-09-17 14:52:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4af2fdba6d * Typo. 2008-09-17 13:00:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c987061aa4 * Some refactoring. Better output with `-v' for --use-atime. 2008-09-17 12:54:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 77afd97a99 * nix-store --gc / --delete: show how many store paths were deleted. 2008-09-17 12:53:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ab68961e4 * Garbage collector: added an option `--use-atime' to delete paths in
order of ascending last access time.  This is useful in conjunction
  with --max-freed or --max-links to prefer deleting non-recently used
  garbage, which is good (especially in the build farm) since garbage
  may become live again.

  The code could easily be modified to accept other criteria for
  ordering garbage by changing the comparison operator used by the
  priority queue in collectGarbage().
2008-09-17 10:02:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b2aa8a820 * Doh. 2008-09-08 11:02:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7933cdc6dc * When writing the user environment manifest, filter out non-string
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.
2008-09-02 09:21:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0f0dbe8c0c * Extend the ATerm suppressions to 64-bit. 2008-08-29 14:38:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 311c222f47 2008-08-29 13:59:03 +00:00
Michael Raskin 2a01d06da6 Added nix-http-export.cgi to extra distributed scripts; so it can be installed from releases, not only from SVN. 2008-08-29 08:34:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7718b19389 * Explicitly set PWD to prevent problems with chroot builds. In
particular, dietlibc cannot figure out the cwd because the inode of
  the current directory doesn't appear in .. (because getdents returns
  the inode of the mount point).
2008-08-27 17:20:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9cc0da8453 * Create a /tmp with 1777 permission in the chroot. Some builders
need a writable /tmp (they don't respect $TMPDIR).
2008-08-27 16:03:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 99dc3e613a * Require that __overrides is defined as a non-recursive attribute
(which means it can only be defined via "inherit"), otherwise we get
  scoping bugs, since __overrides can't be recursive (or at least, it
  would be hard).
2008-08-26 14:05:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d06be428f6 * Disable chroot builds for fixed-output derivations so that we don't
need /etc in the chroot (in particular, /etc/resolv.conf for
  fetchurl).  Not having /etc/resolv.conf in the chroot is a good
  thing, since we don't want normal derivations to download files.
2008-08-25 15:49:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra abec1c0004 * Evaluate attributes in sorted order for better determinism. 2008-08-25 14:31:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c4f1c2114b * Minor simplification. 2008-08-25 14:15:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 49829da8b4 * Doh. 2008-08-25 13:32:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b428adc267 * Strip off the `.nix' suffix from the attribute name for files in
~/.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.
2008-08-25 13:31:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra cc826dc03e * Simplify the Valgrind suppressions using wildcards. 2008-08-22 14:32:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 51e2dda58c * Some more ATerm Valgrind suppressions. 2008-08-19 12:46:43 +00:00
Michael Raskin b7ff182b6e Fixing an obvious typo in override code. I do not know whether it works correctly after the change, but at least it ca nbe compiled now. 2008-08-14 22:01:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ca07f3e370 * Another experimental feature: a way to truly override attributes in
a rec.  This will be very useful to allow end-user customisation of
  all-packages.nix, for instance globally overriding GCC or some other
  dependency.  The // operator doesn't cut it: you could replace the
  "gcc" attribute, but all other attributes would continue to
  reference the original value due to the substitution semantics of
  rec.

  The syntax is a bit hacky but this is to allow backwards
  compatibility.
2008-08-14 16:59:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9279174dde * Added an experimental feature suggested by Andres: ellipses ("...")
in attribute set pattern matches.  This allows defining a function
  that takes *at least* the listed attributes, while ignoring
  additional attributes.  For instance,

    {stdenv, fetchurl, fuse, ...}:
    
    stdenv.mkDerivation {
      ...
    };
    
  defines a function that requires an attribute set that contains the 
  specified attributes but ignores others.  The main advantage is that
  we can then write in all-packages.nix

    aefs = import ../bla/aefs pkgs;

  instead of

    aefs = import ../bla/aefs {
      inherit stdenv fetchurl fuse;
    };

  This saves a lot of typing (not to mention not having to update
  all-packages.nix with purely mechanical changes).  It saves as much
  typing as the "args: with args;" style, but has the advantage that
  the function arguments are properly declared (not implicit in what
  the body of the "with" uses).
2008-08-14 14:00:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra db4f4a8425 * Backward compatibility check to prevent nixos-rebuild from barfing
when upgrading Nix.
2008-08-14 13:02:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1b962fc720 * @-patterns as in Haskell. For instance, in a function definition
f = args @ {x, y, z}: ...;

  `args' refers to the argument as a whole, which is further
  pattern-matched against the attribute set pattern {x, y, z}.
2008-08-14 12:53:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e818838412 * "pattern" non-terminal. 2008-08-14 10:14:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra efe4b690ae * Refactoring: combine functions that take an attribute set and
functions that take a single argument (plain lambdas) into one AST
  node (Function) that contains a Pattern node describing the
  arguments.  Current patterns are single lazy arguments (VarPat) and
  matching against an attribute set (AttrsPat).

  This refactoring allows other kinds of patterns to be added easily,
  such as Haskell-style @-patterns, or list pattern matching.
2008-08-14 10:04:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c03b729319 * Increase the sleep periods a bit to make the test less likely to
fail on slow machines.  Of course it would be better if this test
  wasn't timing dependent...
2008-08-14 09:26:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5664b6d7ba * Removed the "valid values" feature. Nobody uses it anyway. 2008-08-11 13:36:40 +00:00
Michael Raskin b455c4c45c Updates to nix-reduce-build
Common code in local build package sources refactored out in a function; before building the real set of derivations needed is found (slightly slower for only one build strategy, but less garbage on output and better performance for multiple build strategies).

Now you have full choice of best-effort build regardless of method (substituters or actual build), using substituters, building only fixed derivations (should get you all the downloads) and local build without even trying substituters. 

Some minor fix in the help text about behavior with no package sources.
2008-08-06 19:43:53 +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 98b07466fb * Better error checking of the data from the substituters. 2008-08-05 10:57:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 339c142009 * Use optimistic profile locking for nix-env operations like `-i' and
`-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 16:21:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a87b5256e2 * Fix the tests. 2008-08-04 16:16:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 001b3f06ec * `nix-env --set': support --dry-run. 2008-08-04 14:58:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7592f48c83 * nix-build: `--dry-run' flag. 2008-08-04 13:46:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a1d310b6b5 * `nix-store --realise': print what paths will be built/downloaded,
just like nix-env.
* `nix-store --realise': --dry-run option.
2008-08-04 13:44:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 42043953c3 * Doh. 2008-08-04 13:15:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5adbb0aabe * build.cc: only use a substituter if it returns info for a path. 2008-08-04 13:15:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b1052663a * Always show what paths we're going to build/download (as in
--dry-run).  Maybe there should be an option to turn this on/off?
2008-08-04 13:11:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c4f98941ed * nix-env --dry-run: show the total size of the substituter
downloads.
2008-08-04 12:29:04 +00:00