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Eelco Dolstra
c625718513 * Detect flex and bison; updated the manual. 2004-01-30 16:32:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c5baaafae6 * Replaced the SDF parser by a substantially faster Bison/Flex
parser (roughly 80x faster).

  The absolutely latest version of Bison (1.875c) is required for
  reentrant GLR support, as well as a recent version of Flex (say,
  2.5.31).  Note that most Unix distributions ship with the
  prehistoric Flex 2.5.4, which doesn't support reentrancy.
2004-01-30 15:21:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
abd1878b26 * Optimised the SDF grammar. 2004-01-29 14:24:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3648d1c732 * Explicitly compute the release name. 2004-01-22 13:04:57 +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
840551ebdb * Extra bit S' in --query --status' output: show whether there are
any substitutes for the derivation.
2004-01-21 16:41:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1109ea0680 * Fixed a subtle uninitialised variable bug in ATermMaps copied from
ATermMaps.  Found thanks to Valgrind!
2004-01-21 14:49:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
47f19b6293 * Absolutise the specified path in --import' and --profile'. 2004-01-20 20:36:58 +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.
* Updated the README.  Now it just refers to the manual.
2004-01-20 11:49:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
699989b216 * Ignore exit code from strip. 2004-01-19 09:01:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3a4a4aaa88 * Strip binaries in RPMs. 2004-01-19 08:49:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f899e8ce4d * Test whether the symlink, not its target, exists. 2004-01-16 15:17:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b1c5f3c10d * Doh! Edited readmanifest.pm' instead of readmanifest.pm.in'. 2004-01-16 14:54:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
291030b900 * Remove debug message. 2004-01-15 20:58:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
447089a5f6 * Catch SIGINT to terminate cleanly when the user tries to interrupt
Nix.  This is to prevent Berkeley DB from becoming wedged.

  Unfortunately it is not possible to throw C++ exceptions from a
  signal handler.  In fact, you can't do much of anything except
  change variables of type `volatile sig_atomic_t'.  So we set an
  interrupt flag in the signal handler and check it at various
  strategic locations in the code (by calling checkInterrupt()).
  Since this is unlikely to cover all cases (e.g., (semi-)infinite
  loops), sometimes SIGTERM may now be required to kill Nix.
2004-01-15 20:23:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
08719c6c97 * Obsolete. 2004-01-15 20:13:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
55e11bc0d3 * In nix-env --query --status', determine the I' bit by looking at
the output path of a derivation, not the path of its store
  expression.  This ensures that changes that affect the path of the
  store expression but not the output path, do not affect the
  `installed' state of a derivation.
2004-01-15 14:43:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9a404e45c9 * Synchronous nix-pull' with nix-push'.
* Use curl instead of wget.
2004-01-14 14:20:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
16f9b133ec * Improved `nix-push': it now uses HTTP PUT (instead of rsync) to copy
files.  Target location is no longer hard-coded; it accepts a number
  of URLs on the command line.

* `nix-install-package': compatibility fixes.
2004-01-14 11:13:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff9af107d3 * Option `-B' to always show the output of builders, regardless of
verbosity level.
2004-01-13 16:35:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3495d153b3 * Periodically checkpoint the log. 2004-01-13 13:37:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
698e880c9f * Tricky: make sure that the accessor count is not reset to 0 if
recovery fails.
2004-01-13 12:36:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
23fbc72f5d * Print error messages, not debug messages. 2004-01-13 11:53:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c4fe7a114 * Changed the extension for store expressions from ".nix" to ".store"
(following the Usenix paper).
2004-01-12 10:44:48 +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.
* 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
7959354379 * Upgraded to Berkeley DB 4.2.52. The main advantage of 4.2 is that
it automatically removes log files when they are no longer needed.

  *** IMPORTANT ***

  If you have an existing Nix installation, you must checkpoint the
  Nix database to prevent recent transactions from being undone.  Do
  the following:

  - optional: make a backup of $prefix/var/nix/db.

  - run `db_checkpoint' from Berkeley DB 4.1:
  
    $ db_checkpoint -h $prefix/var/nix/db -1

  - optional (?): run `db_recover' from Berkeley DB 4.1:

    $ db_recover -h $prefix/var/nix/db

  - remove $prefix/var/nix/db/log* and $prefix/var/nix/db/__db*
2004-01-07 15:53:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
abe8c8c2aa * Include images/ in distribution. 2004-01-07 10:59:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1ff986d51a * book -> manual 2004-01-06 16:38:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2f0b93904b * Install images. 2004-01-06 16:35:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a373a3e9a * Implemented Eelco V.'s `nix-env -I' command to specify the default
path of the Nix expression to be used with the import, upgrade, and
  query commands.  For instance,

  $ nix-env -I ~/nixpkgs/pkgs/system/i686-linux.nix

  $ nix-env --query --available   [aka -qa]
  sylpheed-0.9.7
  bison-1.875
  pango-1.2.5
  subversion-0.35.1
  ...

  $ nix-env -i sylpheed

  $ nix-env -u subversion

  There can be only one default at a time.

* If the path to a Nix expression is a symlink, follow the symlink
  prior to resolving relative path references in the expression.
2004-01-05 16:26:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f83c5e3e5f * Implemented Eelco V.'s `-p' command to switch profiles. It switches
the symlink ~/.nix-userenv to the given argument (which defaults to
  .../links/current).  /etc/profile.d/nix-profile creates this symlink
  if it doesn't exist yet.  Example use:

  $ nix-env -l my_profile -i foo.nix subversion quake
  $ nix-env -p my_profile

  I don't like the term "profile".  Let's deprecate it :-)
2004-01-05 11:18:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0e68af0ce3 * RPM sucks. 2004-01-02 16:09:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ff3657095 * Generate RPM spec file. 2004-01-02 16:04:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0e09cc12c0 * Add $prefix/store to the RPM.
* Allow extra flags to be passed to RPM.
2004-01-02 14:58:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
94175e978a * RPM spec file.
* Respect DESTDIR variable.
2003-12-30 20:09:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
68f2fadb78 * nix-pull requires libexecdir to be substituted. 2003-12-23 22:15:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
392b7e0f8e * Fixed a bug in the upgrade operation. 2003-12-23 22:13:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
833f2fc92d * GCC 2.95 compatibility. 2003-12-22 16:40:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cf0287c09e * Upgrade operation in `nix-env'. For instance, you can say
nix-env -u foo.nix strategoxt

  to replace the installed `strategoxt' derivation with the one from `foo.nix', if 
  the latter has a higher version number.  This is a no-op if `strategoxt' is not 
  installed.  Wildcards are also accepted, so

    nix-env -u foo.nix '*'

  will replace any installed derivation with newer versions from `foo.nix', if 
  available.

  The notion of "version number" is somewhat ad hoc, but should be useful in most 
  cases, as evidenced by the following unit tests for the version comparator:

    TEST("1.0", "2.3", -1);
    TEST("2.1", "2.3", -1);
    TEST("2.3", "2.3", 0);
    TEST("2.5", "2.3", 1);
    TEST("3.1", "2.3", 1);
    TEST("2.3.1", "2.3", 1);
    TEST("2.3.1", "2.3a", 1);
    TEST("2.3pre1", "2.3", -1);
    TEST("2.3pre3", "2.3pre12", -1);
    TEST("2.3a", "2.3c", -1);
    TEST("2.3pre1", "2.3c", -1);
    TEST("2.3pre1", "2.3q", -1);

  (-1 = less, 0 = equal, 1 = greater)

* A new verbosity level `lvlInfo', between `lvlError' and `lvlTalkative'.  This is 
  the default for `nix-env', so without any `-v' flags users should get useful 
  output, e.g.,

$ nix-env -u foo.nix strategoxt
upgrading `strategoxt-0.9.2' to `strategoxt-0.9.3'
2003-12-22 16:04:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f3c9783846 * Version numbers can be omitted in install/uninstall. E.g.,
nix-env -i foo.nix subversion

  The version number part of a derivation name is defined as everything following the 
  first dash not followed by a letter.
2003-12-21 23:58:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a81b621202 * -u' -> -e'.
* `--link' / `-l' flag to specify the switch symlink to use (by default, 
  /nix/var/nix/links/current).
2003-12-21 22:34:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0a753e182a * Oops. 2003-12-21 22:02:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
df7a718786 * Man pages in sections. 2003-12-21 21:57:09 +00:00