Eelco Dolstra
bb659bad81
Nix 1.6.1 release notes
2013-10-17 11:40:20 +02:00
goblin
d7625b5c2d
two typos
2013-10-17 00:59:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d5529f5b85
Version was called 1.6, not 1.6.0
2013-09-10 17:48:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
fecad91b67
Update release notes
2013-09-10 11:21:30 +02:00
Domen Kožar
4b83830d0c
typo
2013-09-06 15:18:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c1ecf8e81
nix-env -i: Add a flag ‘--remove-all’ / ‘-r’
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This is equivalent to running ‘nix-env -e '*'’ first, except that it
happens in a single transaction. Thus, ‘nix-env -i pkgs...’ replaces
the profile with the specified set of packages.
The main motivation is to support declarative package management
(similar to environment.systemPackages in NixOS). That is, if you
have a specification ‘profile.nix’ like this:
with import <nixpkgs> {};
[ thunderbird
geeqie
...
]
then after any change to ‘profile.nix’, you can run:
$ nix-env -f profile.nix -ir
to update the profile to match the specification. (Without the ‘-r’
flag, if you remove a package from ‘profile.nix’, it won't be removed
from the actual profile.)
Suggested by @zefhemel.
2013-09-03 21:21:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28dfc0305
Manual: Make '' a bit clearer
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Issue #162 .
2013-09-02 13:24:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9b92169a5
Fix manual error
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Reported by Matija Šuklje.
Fixes #163 .
2013-09-02 13:19:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ecd830b3b9
Update the release notes
2013-09-02 13:11:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
efe4289464
Add an option to limit the log output of builders
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This is mostly useful for Hydra to deal with builders that get stuck
in an infinite loop writing data to stdout/stderr.
2013-09-02 11:58:18 +02:00
Ivan Kozik
6cd6ce5608
Fix nix-shell command
2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Ivan Kozik
34bb806f74
Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual
2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
03eaef3d7a
Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependencies
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These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
2013-08-23 10:12:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3110a15e9
Fix corrupt PNG
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Libpng used to accept this, but no longer does.
2013-08-21 12:53:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
7b09e9f2c4
Add hacking notes plus a script for running nix-shell
2013-07-19 16:51:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2bc5de8635
Rename ‘nix-build --run-env’ to ‘nix-shell’
2013-07-19 12:02:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc5f2e7da6
nix-build --run-env: Add a ‘--pure’ flag
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This causes the environment to be (almost) cleared, thus giving a
shell that more closely resembled the actual Nix derivation.
2013-07-19 11:23:32 +02:00
Domen Kožar
620d57f036
doc: typo
2013-07-12 11:27:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
656390062a
nix-build --run-env: Source $stdenv/setup in the interactive shell
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This ensures that not just environment variables are set, but also
shell functions such as unpackPhase, configurePhase and so on.
2013-07-11 14:32:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b584a42e3d
Manual: auto-optimise-store is disabled by default
2013-07-03 18:35:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
5116214343
Add support for uncompressed NARs in binary caches
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Issue NixOS/hydra#102 .
2013-07-01 21:03:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6016bcd30e
Update release notes for Nix 1.5.3
2013-06-17 11:47:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfee9a2581
Typo
2013-06-13 14:51:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
f0576d6775
Update the default binary cache URL to cache.nixos.org
2013-06-05 13:36:43 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
039d5a023f
.bashrc -> .profile
2013-05-29 12:36:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e85d1b5ba
Bump release date
2013-05-13 16:52:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
806970349b
Update release date
2013-05-07 15:46:25 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ea019e9a26
Add option ‘extra-binary-caches’
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This allows providing additional binary caches, useful in scripts like
Hydra's build reproduction scripts, in particular because untrusted
caches are ignored.
2013-05-07 15:37:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
93f4fa8a15
Update release notes
2013-05-03 11:28:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
3628b61ce0
Nix 1.5.2 release notes
2013-05-01 13:31:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
05420e7883
Manual: Add a missing step to the build instructions
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Reported by Johan Grande.
2013-04-09 17:57:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
a68ebf8e37
Require Bison 2.6
2013-03-14 18:33:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bdd4646338
Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
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This reverts commit 28bba8c44f
.
2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
28bba8c44f
Prevent config.h from being clobbered
2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa1bee575
Update release notes
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Also use a point release version number as suggested by several
people.
2013-02-28 19:36:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0111ba98ea
Handle hard links to other files in the output
2013-02-27 17:18:41 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
826dc0d07d
Remove outdated file
2013-02-26 14:32:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ca9c02dff1
Update release notes
2013-02-26 13:23:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
79a3ba7fa3
Document ‘hashString’
2013-02-08 20:04:14 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9842077cb2
Improve -I description
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Issue #88 .
2013-01-24 13:00:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
92926be2fe
Fix "0 store paths deleted" message
2013-01-04 15:17:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
def5160b61
Clear any immutable bits in the Nix store
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Doing this once makes subsequent operations like garbage collecting
more efficient since we don't have to call makeMutable() first.
2013-01-03 12:59:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
f12492c66d
Manual: Fix "nix-store --export" example
2013-01-02 22:36:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
aebea2e489
Reinstate the http://nixos.org/binary-cache default for the binary-caches setting
2013-01-02 22:16:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
42d6f640c1
Update release notes
2013-01-02 13:00:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7629778ef
Allow mounting a path in a different location in the chroot
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Fixes #24 .
2012-12-29 23:04:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
68dcbb187e
download-from-binary-cache: Use the channels of the calling user rather than root
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This should make live easier for single-user (non-daemon)
installations. Note that when the daemon is used, the "calling user"
is root so we're not using any untrusted caches.
2012-12-21 15:00:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5ee7d8fbab
Typo fix
2012-12-21 00:18:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fa12fc201
Allow setting the profile location using $NIX_PROFILE
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Fixes #69 .
2012-12-12 16:01:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8cc19ed089
Set a long SQLite timeout in the binary cache substituter
2012-12-06 11:43:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f96966a44
Add release date
2012-12-05 11:03:06 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a7b4aaa2c3
Updated release notes
2012-12-04 17:41:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
094a08f839
Document new primops
2012-12-04 17:15:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
24d5875514
Document multiple output support
2012-12-04 16:03:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3d6585c5a
nix-copy-closure: Add flag ‘--use-substitutes’
2012-11-23 16:20:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6bc5d05
nix-store -r: Add ‘--ignore-unknown’ flag
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This flag causes paths that do not have a known substitute to be
quietly ignored. This is mostly useful for Charon, allowing it to
speed up deployment by letting a machine use substitutes for all
substitutable paths, instead of uploading them. The latter is
frequently faster, e.g. if the target machine has a fast Internet
connection while the source machine is on a slow ADSL line.
2012-11-20 00:27:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
182e15b661
Manual: Don't use a store path in our closure
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http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3313227
2012-11-09 16:30:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9a8baaccb
Use a shorter Nixpkgs channel URL
2012-11-09 13:33:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c31ebc50aa
Update release notes
2012-11-09 13:33:24 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bbc107ef1e
Process binary caches in order of priority
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Binary caches can now specify a priority in their nix-cache-info file.
The binary cache substituter checks caches in order of priority. This
is to ensure that fast, static caches like nixos.org/binary-cache are
processed before slow, dynamic caches like hydra.nixos.org.
2012-11-06 17:45:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a95e1a17c
Update nix-push manpage and document the binary cache format
2012-11-06 15:49:53 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
620e92e880
Add an option ‘use-binary-caches’
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This allows disabling the use of binary caches, e.g.
$ nix-build ... --option use-binary-caches false
Note that
$ nix-build ... --option binary-caches ''
does not disable all binary caches, since the caches defined by
channels will still be used.
2012-11-06 13:44:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a28b4445a4
nix-prefetch-url: Improve option handling
2012-10-23 18:04:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
ac238d619c
Typo
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Reported by Shea.
2012-10-12 10:21:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfaa5635de
Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists
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http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3124130
2012-10-04 13:37:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e35d6f78dc
Rename nix-worker to nix-daemon
2012-10-03 17:59:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
522ecab9b8
Drop support for running nix-worker in "slave" mode
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AFAIK nobody uses this, setuid binaries are evil, and there is no good
reason why people can't just run the daemon.
2012-10-03 17:30:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c41c66c5b
Document ‘--repair’
2012-10-03 15:53:25 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8e3a7bd712
nix-store --verify: Add an option ‘--repair’ to repair all missing/corrupt paths
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Also, return a non-zero exit code if errors remain after
verifying/repairing.
2012-10-02 15:12:56 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9958bd6992
Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’
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This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store
paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available.
Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a
very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old
(corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available. So
repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like
Glibc.
2012-10-02 14:08:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
95c74eae26
Allow dashes in identifiers
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In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a
package is usually equal to the package name. However, this doesn't
work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common. The
convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib"
becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying. So now dashes are valid in
variable / attribute names, allowing you to write:
dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { };
and
buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ];
Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this
is unambiguous.
2012-09-27 15:49:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f46612be96
Add "on Linux" qualifier
2012-09-25 16:30:37 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f358ca5b6
Document that Nix requires GNU Make
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Fixes #44 .
2012-09-25 16:17:30 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb6651e878
Update release notes
2012-09-25 16:04:50 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
983220bcd4
nix-collect-garbage: Support --dry-run
2012-09-13 18:09:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9fd9dedf12
nix-env --delete-generations: Support --dry-run flag
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Fixes #43 .
2012-09-13 18:05:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c845c0ccad
nix-channel: Add option to force fetching of manifests
2012-09-13 12:11:40 -04:00
Shea Levy
360056e174
Document importing from a directory in the import documentation
2012-08-29 18:07:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e2fc6951c
Disable the binary cache substituter by default for now
2012-08-27 14:20:14 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9c2decaa19
Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests
2012-08-01 18:03:49 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5170c5691a
nix-channel: Use binary caches advertised by channels
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Channels can now advertise a binary cache by creating a file
<channel-url>/binary-cache-url. The channel unpacker puts these in
its "binary-caches" subdirectory. Thus, the URLS of the binary caches
for the channels added by root appear in
/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/eelco/channels/binary-caches/*. The
binary cache substituter reads these and adds them to the list of
binary caches.
2012-08-01 17:56:11 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d1b64f118
Allow daemon users to override ‘binary-caches’
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For security reasons, daemon users can only specify caches that appear
in the ‘binary-caches’ and ‘trusted-binary-caches’ options in
nix.conf.
2012-07-31 18:56:22 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
89a8207029
Add an option ‘build-fallback’ (equivalent to the --fallback flag)
2012-07-31 17:56:02 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
157170059d
Manual: Remove reference to non-existent -I option
2012-07-30 22:29:42 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
9de6d10d11
Get rid of $NIX_BINARY_CACHES
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You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-30 16:39:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f15083c10a
Document the --option flag
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Pointed out by Daniel Santa Cruz on IRC.
2012-07-29 14:37:40 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8c79100839
Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests
2012-07-26 15:14:33 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6193105710
Automatically optimise the Nix store when a new path is added
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Auto-optimisation is enabled by default. It can be turned off by
setting auto-optimise-store to false in nix.conf.
2012-07-23 17:14:15 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
58337e0e61
Set release date
2012-07-18 11:51:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
fe241ece29
Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests
2012-07-18 10:47:59 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
51d71ad3d7
Manual: Don't claim we support Cygwin
2012-07-17 11:49:47 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c01fb4d68
Update Nix 1.1 release notes
2012-07-17 10:06:20 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
53b24f3518
Allow disabling log compression
2012-07-17 09:40:12 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
04559a0d45
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:NixOS/nix into no-manifests
2012-07-11 18:53:27 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
e4d6bcb6cd
Update release notes
2012-07-11 18:52:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
5755a5c354
Install a nix.conf manpage
2012-07-09 11:33:38 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
099125435f
download-from-binary-cache: add nix.conf options
2012-07-09 10:57:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8da6772ed4
Update release notes
2012-06-23 14:59:13 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2c26985835
Add option ‘build-keep-log’ to enable/disable writing of build logs
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Fixes #26 .
2012-05-29 16:42:05 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8058dab26e
Clean up the installation section; document the generic binary tarballs
2012-05-24 12:04:07 -04:00