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Eelco Dolstra
6814b1dfa1 Generate binary tarballs for installing Nix
For several platforms we don't currently have "native" Nix packages
(e.g. Mac OS X and FreeBSD).  This provides the next best thing: a
tarball containing the closure of Nix, plus a simple script
"nix-finish-install" that initialises the Nix database, registers the
paths in the closure as valid, and runs "nix-env -i /path/to/nix" to
initialise the user profile.

The tarball must be unpacked in the root directory.  It creates
/nix/store/... and /usr/bin/nix-finish-install.  Typical installation
is as follows:

  $ cd /
  $ tar xvf /path/to/nix-1.1pre1234_abcdef-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2
  $ nix-finish-install
  (if necessary add ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh to the shell
  login scripts)

After this, /usr/bin/nix-finish-install can be deleted, if desired.

The downside to the binary tarball is that it's pretty big (~55 MiB
for x86_64-linux).
2012-05-22 18:36:54 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
591aab7e21 Remove $FONTCONFIG_FILE hack from nix-profile.sh
It's no longer needed because Nixpkgs' fontconfig uses
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf as a default, just like other distributions.
2012-05-22 14:00:08 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e071f87dc5 Add an experimental nix-make file
To use it, just do (e.g.) "nix-build build.nix -A nix_env".
2012-05-21 09:43:01 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cac9eb39fe Bump version number 2012-05-12 00:07:08 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
dfc6a43b72 Fix the install check 2012-05-11 23:30:47 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
587b408210 Set release date 2012-05-11 17:40:58 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a08813d6c Manual updates 2012-05-11 17:39:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b00e6990c CSS tweaks 2012-05-11 16:21:21 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
58d1de08d9 Use perl.libPrefix to (hopefully) fix the Cygwin build
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2602599
2012-05-11 09:41:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
37fa47908b Build Ubuntu 12.04 packages 2012-05-10 22:12:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d383f57f4 Document "nix-build --run-env" 2012-05-10 19:29:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4f7bab7db1 Support building with the Perl XS bindings disabled
Since the Perl bindings require shared libraries, this is required on
platforms such as Cygwin where we do a static build.
2012-05-10 19:03:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a7b24a3f2 Document "nix-store --add" 2012-05-10 18:09:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cda1fd8ec8 Remove an obsolete hack 2012-05-10 16:56:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
663c06e8cd Disable building in chroot for Nix's corepkgs
The dependencies of the corepkgs are not necessarily in the chroot (or
in the Nix store), so don't build them in a chroot.
2012-05-09 22:14:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb1248d208 Document some nix-store subcommands 2012-05-09 19:06:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a213ffc69 Document $NIX_PATH / -I 2012-05-09 19:06:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
a58efdb69b Update the release notes 2012-05-09 19:05:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
0c4c8f7a9d Remove obsolete files (moved to release tree) 2012-05-08 15:43:54 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
afa7b8a479 nix-channel --update: allow updating only the specified channels 2012-05-07 17:55:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
147f10157f Now *really* prevent accumulation of old manifests 2012-05-07 17:23:26 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
464089365e Fix some 32-bit builds
Perl on some 32-bit systems needs -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.  See also commit
02f1363e19.
2012-05-04 21:40:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c6acb219f9 Drop the Perl-specific CFLAGS
This fixes the Darwin build (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2517380).
Hopefully it doesn't break other builds.
2012-05-04 18:50:34 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
56c82f3d9d Don't build for old Debian/Ubuntu releases that don't have a sufficiently new SQLite 2012-05-04 17:45:21 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
373e875ac2 Don't build for old Fedora releases that don't have a sufficiently new SQLite 2012-05-04 17:25:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
d03a295192 Require SQLite >= 3.6.19
Nix needs SQLite's foreign key constraint feature, which was
introduced in 3.6.19.  Without it, the database won't be cleaned up
correctly when paths are deleted.  See
e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2494142.
2012-05-04 17:21:43 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e060c99447 Use mkpath instead of make_path
Perl <= 5.10 doesn't have make_path.  See
e.g. http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2493981.
2012-05-01 16:35:18 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e19fb7ebed Do "make installcheck" for RPM builds 2012-05-01 16:31:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e145ac30e3 Do "make installcheck" for Debian builds 2012-05-01 15:48:17 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
db5b86ef13 * Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’
to disable use of substitutes; i.e., force building from source.
  Fixes Nix/221.
2012-04-30 19:15:34 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
59a26360c7 Support mandatory system features in the build hook
Mandatory features are features that MUST be present in a derivation's
requiredSystemFeatures attribute.  One application is performance
testing, where we have a dedicated machine to run performance tests
(and nothing else).  Then we would add the label "perf" to the
machine's mandatory features and to the performance testing
derivations.
2012-04-30 17:22:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
82ae0e688c Update the documentation of build-remote.pl 2012-04-30 16:49:00 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
46cdc6ad51 Handle EPERM when creating a hard link for the chroot
There is a race condition when doing parallel builds with chroots and
the immutable bit enabled.  One process may call makeImmutable()
before the other has called link(), in which case link() will fail
with EPERM.  We could retry or wrap the operation in a lock, but since
this condition is rare and I'm lazy, we just use the existing copy
fallback.

Fixes #9.
2012-04-30 10:58:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c722193a91 Don't use the build hook for unpacking channels 2012-04-26 16:52:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6de5d53416 Fix a warning in the build hook about $progressViewer 2012-04-24 12:56:30 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6387830c3b Merge pull request #2 from viric/master
Again, adding the sync option
2012-04-23 03:29:03 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
259c6d3fbb Fix URL set by nix-channel 2012-04-18 13:40:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
9cd3ff1059 nix-instantiate: default to "default.nix" if no arguments are given 2012-04-17 17:19:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8745fade03 Added utility command ‘nix-instantiate --find-file’ to look up a file in Nix's search path 2012-04-17 17:14:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
8cf1719e3e Hack to prevent accumulation of old manifests 2012-04-16 19:52:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1132dd27ea Fix obscure race condition in GC root creation
This should fix rare Hydra errors of the form:

error: symlinking `/nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/hydra/hydra-roots/7sfhs5fdmjxm8sqgcpd0pgcsmz1kq0l0-nixos-iso-0.1pre33785-33795' to `/nix/store/7sfhs5fdmjxm8sqgcpd0pgcsmz1kq0l0-nixos-iso-0.1pre33785-33795': File exists
2012-04-16 18:47:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
154aa7f71a Set a few more close-on-exec flags 2012-04-15 00:42:16 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
31e34fcf93 Close almost all file descriptors in the builder
This regression was accidentally introduced in
35355fc1fc.
2012-04-15 00:20:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b5107c016 If the (redirected) channel URL contains a version number, use it 2012-04-14 21:05:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1d0bafb74d Follow redirects early to ensure consistency between the manifest and the tarball
Without this change, if the URL is a redirect that changes in between,
we can get a manifest that doesn't match the tarball.
2012-04-14 21:04:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca3d9f8b31 Urgh, modified the wrong file... 2012-04-14 19:52:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ef902274fd Remove unnecessary "system" argument 2012-04-14 18:48:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e855c7e2c9 nix-channel improvements
"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name.
This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable.
If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL
(with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed).

Also, channels are now stored in a profile
(/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels).  One advantage of
this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives
an undesirable update).
2012-04-14 18:38:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
969a14599d If "pv" is available at compile time, hard-code its path 2012-04-13 14:41:33 +02:00
Shea Levy
34a85c5405 nix-copy-closure: Move the progressViewer directly adjacent to the ssh call so that network progress is what's measured 2012-04-13 14:29:12 +02:00