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Eelco Dolstra
6ac237e242 * Show some progress. 2006-08-01 09:43:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
23960e92df * Minor cleanup. 2006-06-01 18:13:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9d72bf8835 * 64-bit compatibility fixes (for problems revealed by building on an Athlon
64 running 64-bit SUSE).  A patched ATerm library is required to run Nix
  succesfully.
2006-05-11 02:19:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fdea084c36 * Allow `make check' to work in directories that have symlink
components.
2006-03-10 22:27:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d822bf32e4 * Close the database before the destructor runs. 2006-03-01 16:36:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
345a95afe9 * Allow the size of the GC reserved file to be specified in nix.conf
through the new `gc-reserved-space' option.
2006-02-16 13:58:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
651ab439cf * A simple hack to fix NIX-18: the garbage collector cannot run when
the disk is full (because to delete something from the Nix store, we
  need a Berkeley DB transaction, which takes up disk space).  Under
  normal operation, we make sure that there exists a file
  /nix/var/nix/db/reserved of 1 MB.  When running the garbage
  collector, we delete that file before we open the Berkeley DB
  environment.
2006-02-16 13:19:15 +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
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
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
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
Rob Vermaas
f0856fd905 * Repair the referers table from the references table. 2005-10-29 15:44:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6057b51835 * Don't try to register GC roots in read-only mode. 2005-05-07 21:33:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5dea0622d1 * Idem (constness fix).
* `compare' in GCC 2.95 is broken.
2005-05-04 16:31:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3660b1c8c * Garbage collector fix: allow deletion of paths that have invalid
(but substitutable) referers.
2005-04-12 10:51:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c815aff21b * `nix-store --add-fixed' to preload the outputs of fixed-output
derivations.  This is mostly to simplify the implementation of
  nix-prefetch-{url, svn}, which now work properly in setuid
  installations.

* Enforce valid store names in `nix-store --add / --add-fixed'.
2005-04-07 14:01:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7eaf038763 * `nix-store --verify': repair bad referer mappings. 2005-03-25 14:21:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3f236f01ae * `nix-store --register-validity': allow a path to refer to a path
listed later in the list of new valid paths.
2005-03-23 13:07:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f20f081560 * nix-store: --isvalid' -> --check-validity', `--validpath' ->
`--register-validity'.
* `nix-store --register-validity': read arguments from stdin, and
  allow the references and deriver to be set.
2005-03-23 11:25:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c757d16c8c * Bug in clearSubstitutes(). 2005-03-14 18:54:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4bbdcfbb45 * Don't use fork() in copyPath(), but a string buffer. 2005-03-03 13:58:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
86cb3cc554 * Increase Berkeley DB limits a bit more.
* Maintain the cleanup invariant in clearSubstitutes().
2005-03-03 13:10:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
07b4399fb6 * `nix-store -q --hash' to quickly query the hash of the contents of a
store path (which is stored in the database).
2005-03-02 15:57:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
32429142cd * Type error in constructor call (caught by GCC 3.3, but not 3.4!). 2005-02-14 09:53:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a99616968 * Commit more often to prevent out-of-memory errors. 2005-02-09 14:37:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
98df735b51 * Propagate the deriver of a path through the substitute mechanism.
* Removed some dead code (successor stuff) from nix-push.
* Updated terminology in the tests (store expr -> drv path).
* Check that the deriver is set properly in the tests.
2005-02-09 12:57:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
582e01c06f * Automatically upgrade <= 0.7 Nix stores to the new schema (so that
existing user environments continue to work).
* `nix-store --verify': detect incomplete closures.
2005-02-09 09:50:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c547439843 * Subflag in --verify': nix-store --verify --check-contents' checks
that the contents of store paths has not changed by comparing hashes
  of their current contents to the hashes stored in the database.
2005-02-08 13:48:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3d74274b37 * Updated `nix-store --verify' to the new schema. 2005-02-08 13:23:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fbc434ee4c * `nix-store -qb' to query derivation environment bindings. Useful
for finding build-time dependencies (possibly after a build).  E.g.,

    $ nix-store -qb aterm $(nix-store -qd $(which strc))
    /nix/store/jw7c7s65n1gwhxpn35j9rgcci6ilzxym-aterm-2.3.1

* Arguments to nix-store can be files within store objects, e.g.,
  /nix/store/jw7c...-aterm-2.3.1/bin/baffle.

* Idem for garbage collector roots.
2005-02-07 14:32:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
450c358e20 * Maintain a database table (`derivers') that maps output paths to the
derivation that produced them.
* `nix-store -qd PATH' prints out the derivation that produced a path.
2005-02-07 13:40:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dcc37c236c * nix-store, nix-instantiate: added an option `--add-root' to
immediately add the result as a permanent GC root.  This is the only
  way to prevent a race with the garbage collector.  For instance, the
  old style

    ln -s $(nix-store -r $(nix-instantiate foo.nix)) \
      /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result

  has two time windows in which the garbage collector can interfere
  (by GC'ing the derivation and the output, respectively).  On the
  other hand,

    nix-store --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/result -r \
      $(nix-instantiate --add-root /nix/var/nix/gcroots/drv \
        foo.nix)

  is safe.

* nix-build: use `--add-root' to prevent GC races.
2005-02-01 12:36:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
06b4424286 * Add missing files to dist.
* Fix GC and substitute bugs related to self-references.  Add a
  regression test.
2005-02-01 09:23:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
252c9c91ab * Topologically sort paths under the references relation to ensure
that they are deleted in an order that maintains the closure
  invariant.
* Presence of a path in a temporary roots file does not imply that all
  paths in its closure are also present, so add the closure.
2005-01-31 14:00:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1328aa3307 * Start of concurrent garbage collection. Processes write temporary
roots to a per-process temporary file in /nix/var/nix/temproots
  while holding a write lock on that file.  The garbage collector
  acquires read locks on all those files, thus blocking further
  progress in other Nix processes, and reads the sets of temporary
  roots.
2005-01-31 10:27:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0ea8b6993a * Only invalidate paths when they are in fact valid. 2005-01-28 11:05:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a3eef22e3 * Fix deadlock. 2005-01-27 17:48:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c60a4943ba * Update referers mappings when updating/clearing the references
mapping.
* Do things in the right order in invalidatePath().
2005-01-27 16:18:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c505702265 * Fix and simplify the garbage collector (it's still not concurrent,
though).  In particular it's now much easier to register a GC root.
  Just place a symlink to whatever store path it is that you want to
  keep in /nix/var/nix/gcroots.
2005-01-27 15:21:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a24b78e9f1 * Maintain the references/referers relation also for derivations.
This simplifies garbage collection and `nix-store --query
  --requisites' since we no longer need to treat derivations
  specially.

* Better maintaining of the invariants, e.g., setReferences() can only
  be called on a valid/substitutable path.
2005-01-25 21:28:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2a2756b856 * Simplification: registerSubstitutes -> registerSubstitute. We no
longer need the former since there we no longer have the
  substitutes-rev table (which triggered a O(n^2) cost in updating
  them).
2005-01-25 20:27:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
066da4ab85 * Really fix the substitute mechanism, i.e., ensure the closure
invariant by registering references through the manifest.
* Added a test for nix-pull.
2005-01-25 17:08:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a0a2d5593 * Terminology fixes. 2005-01-20 16:01:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e0f4e587c3 * Nix-store queries --references' and referers' to query the pointer
graph.  That is, `nix-store --query --references PATH' shows the set
  of paths referenced by PATH, and `nix-store --query --referers PATH'
  shows the set of paths referencing PATH.
2005-01-19 16:59:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
96de272b48 * Renamed normalise.cc' -> build.cc', `storeexprs.cc' ->
`derivations.cc', etc.
* Store the SHA-256 content hash of store paths in the database after
  they have been built/added.  This is so that we can check whether
  the store has been messed with (a la `rpm --verify').
* When registering path validity, verify that the closure property
  holds.
2005-01-19 16:39:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
06c77bf7a8 * Change extension .store' to .drv'.
* Re-enable `nix-store --query --requisites'.
2005-01-19 14:36:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
863dcff6c5 * Started removing closure store expressions, i.e., the explicit
representation of closures as ATerms in the Nix store.  Instead, the
  file system pointer graph is now stored in the Nix database.  This
  has many advantages:

  - It greatly simplifies the implementation (we can drop the notion
    of `successors', and so on).

  - It makes registering roots for the garbage collector much easier.
    Instead of specifying the closure expression as a root, you can
    simply specify the store path that must be retained as a root.
    This could not be done previously, since there was no way to find
    the closure store expression containing a given store path.
    
  - Better traceability: it is now possible to query what paths are
    referenced by a path, and what paths refer to a path.
2005-01-19 11:16:11 +00:00