Eelco Dolstra
e2a70b7ec0
* Magic attribute `exportReferencesGraph' that allows the references
...
graph to be passed to a builder. This attribute should be a list of
pairs [name1 path1 name2 path2 ...]. The references graph of each
`pathN' will be stored in a text file `nameN' in the temporary build
directory. The text files have the format used by `nix-store
--register-validity'. However, the deriver fields are left empty.
`exportReferencesGraph' is useful for builders that want to do
something with the closure of a store path. Examples: the builders
that make initrds and ISO images for NixOS.
`exportReferencesGraph' is entirely pure. It's necessary because
otherwise the only way for a builder to get this information would
be to call `nix-store' directly, which is not allowed (though
unfortunately possible).
2006-11-13 18:18:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e40d4a5604
* Option --reregister' in
nix-store --register-validity'. We need
...
this in the NixOS installer (or in the buildfarm) to ensure that the
cryptographic hash of the path contents still matches the actual
contents.
2006-11-13 16:48:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
005eecfc4d
* Release notes.
2006-10-30 16:29:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ae6fb27f18
* `nix-store --read-log / -l PATH' shows the build log of PATH, if
...
available. For instance,
$ nix-store -l $(which svn) | less
lets you read the build log of the Subversion instance in your
profile.
* `nix-store -qb': if applied to a non-derivation, take the deriver.
2006-10-28 16:33:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
99b0ea7c67
* Typo reported by Arie Middelkoop.
...
* Left out close-quote in example.
2006-10-26 23:06:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d4567f2cc
* Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just another
...
kind of notation for strings.
2006-10-11 21:59:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4e012ab4d
* Merge 0.10.1 release notes.
2006-10-11 13:39:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7bada48b36
* Bumped the version number to 0.11.
2006-10-06 13:45:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1cc84259c
* Too lazy to document nix-push --copy.
2006-10-06 09:59:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3fc016061
* Translate Unicode quote characters to ASCII equivalents when
...
generating NEWS.txt.
2006-10-06 09:03:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3815d2d463
* Typos etc.
...
* Set the release date.
2006-10-06 07:47:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
beee18de88
* Document nix-store --delete.
2006-10-05 23:13:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eff573f563
* Work around a weird bug in the manpage generation.
2006-10-05 23:01:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e08f5efe1
* Documented nix-store --dump / --restore.
2006-10-05 22:57:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8791ffbc88
* Documented new nix-env options.
2006-10-05 22:56:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
99ef620c8c
* Documented nix-instantiate --xml, --strict.
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* Added an example to the nix-build section.
2006-10-05 20:41:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8396b59286
* Documented --attr / -A.
2006-10-05 20:07:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5d769de8a3
* Document --arg.
2006-10-05 09:08:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f2bfd92b6
* Manual.
2006-10-05 08:21:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
34427a7b43
* Weird.
2006-10-04 17:07:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3fd53b9eb
* Style tweak.
2006-10-04 17:07:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
59ef0aaf3f
* Strings.
2006-10-04 16:02:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
407c9fd520
* Explanation of toXML example.
2006-10-04 15:20:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0ef3bd3c37
* Use GIF callouts instead of PNG since the GIFs have transparency.
2006-10-04 12:20:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a7ece698b
2006-10-04 08:26:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd4f1b4bb8
* Style tweaks.
2006-10-04 08:14:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
96fa456a0a
* An example of using toXML to pass structured information to a
...
builder and generate a Jetty configuration file with XSLT.
2006-10-03 15:39:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3837fb233c
* Document the built-in functions.
2006-10-03 15:19:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
84e6c43e85
* Documented nix-hash.
2006-10-02 22:11:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cfe35ca0e0
* Manual.
2006-10-02 20:28:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
853252ac66
* Document the new let.
2006-10-02 16:14:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f316b6c1a9
* Manual updates (especially how nix-build makes testing packages much
...
easier; no longer need a helper expression).
2006-10-02 11:50:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
91a01e6fcf
* Manual.
2006-10-02 09:01:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
88d422567e
* One-click installs.
2006-09-29 14:59:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0212feeed6
* Document nix-install-package and the nixpkg file format.
2006-09-29 14:16:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
070e07ed5a
* Manual.
2006-09-29 11:03:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
30c7db85d8
* Manual updates, some style improvements.
2006-09-29 10:31:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2eed05224
* Manual updates.
...
* Documented nix-{pack,unpack}-closure.
2006-09-28 09:10:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
015ac7c7da
* Release notes.
2006-09-27 13:27:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9a6356ffc
* Release notes.
2006-09-27 12:43:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e47d42536f
* Release notes.
2006-09-26 09:57:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f00bc4c94c
* "Too many links" error.
2006-09-12 09:29:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a04a65d7a5
* Release notes.
2006-09-06 14:29:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f41297fdce
* Allow --arg in nix-env as well, example:
...
$ nix-env -qa --system-filter \* --arg system '"powerpc-darwin"'
to override the system from the default value (__currentSystem in
all-packages.nix).
2006-08-23 16:33:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
68515b5a96
* Release notes.
2006-08-22 13:19:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a9a1f2768
* Convert to DocBook 5.
...
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-21 16:05:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
601a8eab79
* Ugh. Darwin's chmod insists that flags come before the mode
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specification.
2006-08-01 12:00:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b11aeb2c4b
* Doh.
2006-07-25 13:15:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5744dd5480
* Support the --attr / -A flag in nix-env as well. So now we can do,
...
e.g.,
$ nix-env -i -A subversion xorg.xorgserver
The main advantage over using symbolic names is that using attribute
names is unambiguous and much, much faster.
2006-07-25 11:53:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c15f544356
* Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to prevent
...
running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-07-20 12:17:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
48e4a3231b
2006-06-14 13:31:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
50fe85f016
* For fixed-output derivations, pass the environment variables listed
...
in the attribute variable `impureEnvVars' from the caller to the
builder.
2006-05-31 09:51:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b5aa91aa7
2006-05-08 14:00:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
20675feeab
* Update copyright.
2006-03-15 12:58:22 +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
b505f9eaf5
* Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin.
2006-02-10 15:29:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1d2460ee5d
* Documentation fixes.
2005-12-24 23:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c5619c7e4
* Begin release notes.
2005-12-15 21:11:55 +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
1b43fbd8e4
* Oops, that should be Berkeley DB 4.3. Reported by Gerco Ballintijn.
2005-10-18 14:09:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
62412c5874
* Document `nix-env --compare-versions'.
2005-10-06 15:51:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ed4de220d2
* Use "source" instead of ".".
2005-09-28 09:00:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fbedf6056e
* Merge release notes.
2005-09-22 12:23:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
db1a4227a3
* Updated release notes.
2005-09-16 11:28:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28b8eb699
* svn:ignores.
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* Add missing file to dist.
2005-09-16 10:35:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5c0770ac84
* Include the release notes in the manual.
2005-09-16 08:47:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1b62c2eba3
* Force release notes in ASCII, not UTF-8.
2005-09-15 20:29:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d1d0271996
* Check for w3m.
2005-09-15 15:21:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5818e8eeaf
* Remove dead code.
2005-09-14 18:51:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
025086edea
* Release notes in Docbook; ASCII release notes (i.e., the `NEWS'
...
file) is now generated from that using `w3m' and some XSL hackery.
2005-09-14 18:50:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
78c72bf10e
* channels -> channels-v3, catamaran -> nix.cs.uu.nl.
2005-08-01 07:30:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a5ceb5bc0b
* nix-build: default to `./default.nix' if no paths are specified.
...
So when using Nix as a build tool, you can just say `nix-build' and
it will build the top-level derivation defined in `default.nix'.
2005-07-13 17:39:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
88dea78cdf
* Crazy: don't use real hashes of real components in examples, since
...
they cause Nix builds to have unnecessary retained dependences
(e.g., on Subversion).
2005-05-09 09:58:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
82d771f6e6
* Manual updates.
2005-04-10 20:54:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fb45b0f548
* Document nix-channel.
2005-04-09 17:16:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b70f138e0
* Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'
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options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-08 13:00:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b9d8ecbc6a
* More doc updates.
2005-04-07 15:51:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
57d023a184
* More manual updates.
2005-04-07 10:47:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1ae10b992
* Build hook documentation.
...
* nix-store options.
2005-04-07 09:36:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
806b91f104
* GC docs.
2005-04-07 08:17:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
128c174295
* Manual updates.
2005-04-05 15:28:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
229252941a
* Some GC documentation.
2005-04-05 11:30:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c8cf567b8
* Use `--nonet' flag.
2005-04-05 11:29:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a83c12c5d
* Added a glossary to the manual.
2005-04-01 15:34:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
67eff20906
* Manual updates.
2005-03-17 10:30:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ad3121a52d
* Documented common environment variables.
2005-03-16 16:45:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f982df3cd7
* Update the user environments figure to show multiple profiles and
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users.
* Change to base-32 hashes.
2005-03-16 14:40:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
afc3a7b79b
* Automake 1.9 compatibility.
2005-03-16 10:46:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
693ff4f6bf
* Some more updates.
2005-03-15 15:42:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e301334696
* XInclude all the way.
2005-03-15 13:55:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b376565b86
* Manual updates.
2005-03-15 13:21:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d75616f2c
* NEWS and manual update for release 0.7.
2005-01-12 10:27:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
015beb7cd0
* Typo: genericBuilder -> genericBuild.
2004-12-17 13:46:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f8964a062
* More manual fixes.
2004-11-14 10:42:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b79a12082
* Manual fixes.
2004-11-14 00:24:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
54c7a870d5
* Document --delete-generations and other nix-env options.
2004-11-12 23:56:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2b0d6b02f
* Document --eval-only and --parse-only options in nix-instantiate.
2004-11-12 23:22:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
32c7326850
* Typos.
2004-11-09 14:06:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b8aaef5e4e
* Documented the standard environment, including the generic builder.
2004-11-07 22:12:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c3b29c5ca
* Everything you always wanted to know about functions and derivations
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but were afraid to ask.
2004-11-07 20:36:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ea6581b691
* Drop the grammar appendix.
2004-11-07 20:36:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1bac7a10e6
* Operators, comments.
2004-11-07 18:58:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
55b35d6d77
* Lets, inheritance, assertions.
2004-11-07 13:53:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b1ee4802b
* Typo fix.
2004-11-05 21:12:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f0300d18c
* Generic builders.
2004-11-05 21:11:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3e9d2038b4
* Start of language reference.
2004-11-05 15:39:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6ca9c7f0a9
* Finished GNU Hello walkthrough.
2004-11-05 13:10:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b934694f2
* Manual: writing Nix expressions.
2004-11-04 20:21:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5f2c5a306c
* chapter -> appendix.
2004-11-02 08:25:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0913f5a615
* Section about channels.
2004-11-01 16:21:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ee5dcfade2
* Section about garbage collection.
2004-11-01 16:03:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cbe8de592d
* Profiles section.
2004-11-01 12:02:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b05a596d61
* Document setuid Nix installs.
2004-10-31 17:08:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0d80d237c5
* Add figures to make install' /
make dist'.
2004-10-31 16:13:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8ac8d1ec8
* Began adding build farm docs.
2004-10-29 15:26:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
37d7abd694
* New language feature: with expressions.
...
The expression `with E1; E2' evaluates to E2 with all bindings in
the attribute set E1 substituted. E.g.,
with {x = 123;}; x
evaluates to 123. That is, the attribute set E1 is in scope in E2.
This is particularly useful when importing files containing lots
definitions. E.g., instead of
let {
inherit (import ./foo.nix) a b c d e f;
body = ... a ... f ...;
}
we can now say
with import ./foo.nix;
... a ... f ...
I.e., we don't have to say what variables should be brought into scope.
2004-10-25 16:54:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2cd590d96c
* Instead of — use the actual Unicode character. By the way, to
...
edit the manual, you should have something like
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.xml\\>" 'utf-8)
in your ~/.emacs.
2004-10-18 12:22:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
692204e0c5
* Rewrite of package management stuff.
2004-10-14 16:43:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
febd8bed1b
* Split overview chapter into a chapter on package management and a
...
chapter on writing Nix expressions.
2004-10-14 11:55:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
98c69e5172
* Unindent.
2004-10-14 11:54:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
371c57d8a7
* Updated the quick start section. Use channels instead of
...
downloading Nix expressions and calling nix-pull. This is so
user-friendly that even a Mac user can do it! :-)
2004-10-13 15:35:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b20701f78
* Better introduction.
...
* Set notes in a different color than warnings.
2004-10-13 15:08:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5396304c73
* Use setre[ug]id() instead of setres[ug]id(), since the former is
...
more common than the latter (which exists only on Linux and
FreeBSD). We don't really care about dropping the saved IDs since
there apparently is no way to quiry them in any case, so it can't
influence the build (unlike the effective IDs which are checked by
Perl for instance).
2004-09-09 15:55:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb233e728f
* `--min-age' flag in nix-store and nix-collect-garbage to only delete
...
unreachable paths that haven't been used for N hours. For instance,
`nix-collect-garbage --min-age 168' only deletes paths that haven't
been accessed in the last week.
This is useful for instance in the build farm where many derivations
can be shared between consecutive builds, and we wouldn't want a
garbage collect to throw them all away. We could of course register
them as roots, but then we'd to unregister them at some point, which
would be a pain to manage. The `--min-age' flag gives us a sort of
MRU caching scheme.
BUG: this really shouldn't be in gc.cc since that violates
mechanism/policy separation.
2004-08-25 16:54:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fdec72c6cc
* `nix-collect-garbage' now actually performs a garbage collection, it
...
doesn't just print the set of paths that should be deleted. So
there is no more need to pipe the result into `nix-store --delete'
(which doesn't even exist anymore).
2004-08-25 15:39:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1eddee59f2
* The default verbosity level of all Nix commands is now lvlInfo.
...
* Builder output is written to standard error by default.
* The option `-B' is gone.
* The option `-Q' suppresses builder output.
The result of this is that most Nix invocations shouldn't need any
flags w.r.t. logging.
2004-08-18 12:19:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
151e61fa5a
* By default, `nix-env -i' now deletes previously installed
...
derivations with names matching the derivations being installed.
The option `--preserve-installed / -P' overrides this behaviour.
2004-06-28 14:40:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
24286e15c9
* `nix-env -u' now allows a specific version to be specified when
...
upgrading.
This fixes a bug reported by Martin:
$ nix-env -i foo-1.0
$ nix-env -u foo-1.0
upgrading foo-1.0 to foo-1.1
2004-06-28 13:37:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
91dc023665
* Added a switch `--fallback'. From the manual:
...
Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a closure is
already known, but this closure cannot be realised, fall back on
normalising the derivation.
The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have
registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution from,
say, a network repository. If the repository is down, the
realisation of the derivation will fail. When this option is
specified, Nix will build the derivation instead. Thus, binary
installation falls back on a source installation. This option is
not the default since it is generally not desirable for a transient
failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a full build from
source (with the related consumption of resources).
2004-06-28 10:42:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b113edeab7
* A flag `--keep-going / -k' to keep building goals if one fails, as
...
much as possible. (This is similar to GNU Make's `-k' flag.)
* Refactoring to implement this: previously we just bombed out when
a build failed, but now we have to clean up. In particular this
means that goals must be freed quickly --- they shouldn't hang
around until the worker exits. So the worker now maintains weak
pointers in order not to prevent garbage collection.
* Documented the `-k' and `-j' flags.
2004-06-25 15:36:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bcce9c1ff5
* Only add `-preRELEASE' to the version if STABLE != 1.
...
* Documented release procedures.
2004-04-26 09:52:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
87bf541f23
* Documented the primops.
2004-04-08 15:51:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b0c9baf1b5
* EBNF grammar for the Nix expression language.
2004-04-08 13:31:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
92e832348d
* Lots of manual stuff. Reference pages for most Nix commands.
...
* nix-pull now requires the full url to the manifest, i.e.,
`/MANIFEST/' is no longer automatically appended.
* nix-prefetch-url works again.
2004-02-10 16:14:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0616b7feea
* Documented the most important nix-env flags.
2004-02-10 11:51:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
66e94d3275
* Improvements to profiles. Generations are now per-profile, e.g.,
...
default -> default-94-link
default-82-link -> /nix/store/cc4480...
default-83-link -> /nix/store/caeec8...
...
default-94-link -> /nix/store/2896ca...
experimental -> experimental-2-link
experimental-1-link -> /nix/store/cc4480...
experimental-2-link -> /nix/store/a3148f...
* `--profile' / `-p' -> `--switch-profile' / `-S'
* `--link' / `-l' -> `--profile' / `-p'
* The default profile is stored in $prefix/var/nix/profiles.
$prefix/var/nix/links is gone. Profiles can be stored anywhere.
* The current profile is now referenced from ~/.nix-profile, not
~/.nix-userenv.
* The roots to the garbage collector now have extension `.gcroot', not
`.id'.
2004-02-06 10:30:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d9f30fe7c7
* Sort `nix-env -q' output by derivation name.
...
* `--version' flag for all commands.
* Manual updates.
2004-02-02 10:51:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c625718513
* Detect flex and bison; updated the manual.
2004-01-30 16:32:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cdb50886f4
* Typos.
2004-01-22 09:35:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c4bc7276a
* Added a note about adding /nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh to the profile.
2004-01-22 09:17:55 +00:00
Martin Bravenboer
4f72b408a5
Typos and url losser -> catamaran
2004-01-22 08:47:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4db7ef3fcc
* Fixed URL.
2004-01-20 17:18:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3778586b2a
* Nix Quick Start guide.
2004-01-20 15:37:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8baf50f108
* Manual updates.
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* Updated the README. Now it just refers to the manual.
2004-01-20 11:49:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff9af107d3
* Option `-B' to always show the output of builders, regardless of
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verbosity level.
2004-01-13 16:35:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
46a71c857c
* Option --force-realise' in
nix-store --query'.
2004-01-09 14:18:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
30b31a8f61
* Start of nix-env reference.
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* Some CSS tweaks.
2004-01-08 16:56:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b594215531
* Manual updates.
2004-01-08 15:01:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5346536b62
* Include version number in manual.
2004-01-08 10:45:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
abe8c8c2aa
* Include images/ in distribution.
2004-01-07 10:59:38 +00:00