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Eelco Dolstra
5a6d50998d Add a missing DocBook source file to the tarball
Reported on IRC by Adrian Siekierka.
2012-04-06 20:26:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8be1979f1a Remove the --max-links GC option
We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more
than 32,000 files in a directory.
2012-03-26 20:00:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b006a31d52 Drop the externals directory
Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed.  SQLite is
detected using pkg-config.  We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so
depending on SQLite is not a big problem.

The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2012-03-18 23:54:57 +01:00
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
2a3f4110c5 * nix-build: put the temporary derivation symlink in a temporary
directory rather than the current directory.
* nix-build: --drv-link now implies --add-drv-link.
2012-01-13 23:35:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
93e71e6ab6 * Follow our own coding conventions. 2011-12-30 17:39:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f2d65c9c80 * Remove a redundant dot (Nicolas Pierron). 2011-12-30 17:31:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ed11b17b2e * Fix doc error. 2011-12-30 13:43:29 +00:00
Peter Simons
be9be4c147 doc/manual/nix-env.xml: fixed "nix-env -qaA" typo 2011-12-01 08:03:30 +00:00
Peter Simons
3c7ec8fc1b doc/manual/nix-env.xml: stripped trailing whitespace 2011-12-01 08:02:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3bc98b001 2011-11-23 15:39:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
10e2b2b79e * Document the --include-outputs option. 2011-11-23 15:39:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d5ac78e0d6 * Add bzip2 and xz support to nix-copy-closure. 2011-11-23 15:29:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
daed9aeac5 2011-11-03 19:22:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7b87bebe3 * The Nix configuration file is usually /etc/nix/nix.conf. 2011-11-03 18:47:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
325b5a8aee * Fix permission on /nix/store in the manual for multi-user installs
(reported by Silvio Frischknecht).
2011-11-02 19:14:54 +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
1ea6e06445 doc: Fix typo. 2011-06-30 15:48:40 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
5c9e9f732d Add support for the build-timeout' and --timeout' options. 2011-06-30 15:19:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
48bdbbf070 * Fix a bug in the documentation (reported by Olexiy Buyanskyy,
Nix/215).
2011-03-15 13:12:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e60c962fb8 * Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'. 2010-11-17 12:40:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fb9368b5a0 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-11-16 12:49:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
26def5392f * Document Boehm GC support. 2010-10-29 14:44:02 +00:00
Rob Vermaas
8dadcede65 nix manual: fix 'install' -> 'uninstall' in garbage collection section of introduction 2010-10-06 19:04:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
955d11aae7 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-08-24 09:56:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2de17f4edc * Update date. 2010-08-17 10:06:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
86f65edf4e * Document --cores in the manual. 2010-08-17 07:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b75e1043a3 * Typo. 2010-08-16 13:23:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
12721a3a9a * Nix 0.16 release notes. 2010-08-16 12:38:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
aa45027818 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-05-12 22:13:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
83dfa89870 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-05-07 14:46:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7fa338f4ba * Don't use smart quotes where normal ASCII quotes are intended.
Actually, don't use quotes at all.  (Reported by Howard B. Golden.)
2010-05-02 21:27:50 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell
d77331d32f Fixing a typo in the nix-store manual, that could confuse a bit too much (--delete/--gc) 2010-04-25 20:52:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d66ea83a76 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-04-20 09:20:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3b8833a48 * Drop the dependency on the ATerm library. 2010-04-19 14:51:58 +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
fe1b8781ae * Fix a broken link (reported by Peter Koppstein). 2010-03-16 12:58:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3c63d0d6c * Disable fsync() in SQLite if the fsync-metadata option is set to
false.
* Change the default for `fsync-metadata' to true.
* Disable `fsync-metadata' in `make check'.
2010-02-24 13:12:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3b3e1025c3 * Typo. Reported by Peter Koppstein. 2010-02-12 10:50:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e08dbff9a8 * Fix a broken link (reported by Bjorn Buckwalter). 2010-02-05 10:17:13 +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
07ffdc2862 * Added an option "fsync-metadata" to fsync() changes to
/nix/var/nix/db.
* Removed the function writeStringToFile since it does (almost) the
  same thing as writeFile.
2010-01-29 12:22:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a78af1e24 * Release notes. 2009-12-09 21:02:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3d55f1eb57 * A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbage
collector roots that point (directly or indirectly) to the given
  paths.
2009-11-23 18:16:25 +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
327a232c85 * Remove support for old (before Nix 0.12pre12020) databases. 2009-11-06 01:15:44 +00:00