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Eelco Dolstra
08f9cfe267 * No longer automatically download Berkeley DB / ATerm. 2003-08-18 08:35:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
96c7b98bf0 * Argument support in Fix. Arguments can be passed through the
builder using the `args' binding:

  ("args", ["bla", True, IncludeFix("aterm/aterm.fix")])

  Note that packages can also be declared as inputs by specifying them
  in the argument list.
2003-08-15 13:01:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
555347744d * Derivation expressions now can specify arguments to be passed to the
builder.  Note that this unfortunately causes all Fix-computed
  hashes to change.
2003-08-15 12:32:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e374dbf89b * A script `nix-prefetch-url' to fetch a URL, place it in the Nix
store, and print its hash.
2003-08-15 10:13:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
01e30360d4 * Don't use a temporary file. 2003-08-15 09:39:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
163db7367f * Fix can now read expressions from stdin (by saying `fix -'). 2003-08-15 09:21:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
161aab582b * Use a catalog when calling xsltproc. 2003-08-14 18:24:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a24cb19361 * Use xmllint instead of nsgmls to validate the manual. 2003-08-14 18:17:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ee3b7a37a * Function application test cases. 2003-08-14 12:37:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc0ef2ca98 * Detect infinite loops using blackholing. 2003-08-14 12:37:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2e16ff22ac * Fix man page. 2003-08-14 11:27:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5cde23f869 * Function() takes a list of formals. 2003-08-14 09:49:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0a2de7f543 * Lam -> Function. Doh! 2003-08-14 09:29:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
95b49f8044 * Manual updates. 2003-08-13 15:17:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
68022552d2 * Put the pre-built manual and man pages in the tar distribution. 2003-08-13 15:17:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c34a153ae5 * Documented the `--query' operation. 2003-08-13 10:45:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4f88d0ec3 * Split the book.xml into several xml files. 2003-08-13 09:13:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
469f1eba56 * Documented some Nix operations. 2003-08-12 15:06:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e405ca506e * Generate man pages from the manual. 2003-08-12 13:54:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c602930e08 * deletePath(): some operating systems (e.g., Mac OS X) don't like it
when we delete entries from a directory while we are reading it.
  So read the directory into memory, then delete its contents.
2003-08-08 14:55:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4b7b0bd12c * Started on the introduction. 2003-08-07 15:27:14 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
74867e72f2 * Start of manual; installation instructions. 2003-08-07 14:17:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8035d06f2 * Allow a name to be given to a system configuration through `--name
NAME'.  E.g., on the losser Subversion server, I do `nix-switch --name 
  svn $(fix ...)' to atomically upgrade the server (the SVN server 
  uses the Apache and Subversion installations in /nix/var/nix/links/svn).
2003-08-06 14:48:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9ad39df282 * `==' is not a valid operator. 2003-08-06 10:00:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d551062ec4 * Scan for wget and use the full path in fetchurl.sh.
* Use nix-hash (not md5sum) in fetchurl.sh.
2003-08-06 09:35:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
236eb59293 * Allow locks on paths to be acquired recursively (that is, if the
process is already holding a lock on a path, it may acquire the lock
  again without blocking or failing).  (This might be dangerous, not
  sure).  Necessary for fast builds to work.
2003-08-06 09:34:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
720f06e3b0 * A flag `--flat' to just compute the MD5 checksum of the contents of
a regular file.  I.e., `nix-hash --flat' is equivalent to the
  coreutils `md5sum' command (which doesn't exist on all systems).
2003-08-06 09:06:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
37483672d4 * App -> Call.
* Allow booleans in package environment bindings (True maps to "1",
  False maps to "").
2003-08-06 09:05:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d34b4d4f28 * Conditionals. 2003-08-05 13:05:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b9c9b461ea * Made nix-push much faster. 2003-08-05 12:30:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4ce652640b * Cache result of fstatePaths(). TODO: do this in fstore.cc. 2003-08-05 12:29:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fd30f52cfc * Made nix-pull much faster by performing all Fix instantiations at
the same time.
2003-08-05 11:14:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
17f05dba77 * Allow the top-level expression to be a list of expressions that
normalise to Nix expression.
2003-08-05 11:13:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d6b6b2d3a8 * Delete obstructed paths prior to building. 2003-08-05 09:47:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d2e963f7a3 * Path locking in addToStore() and expandPath(). 2003-08-04 07:09:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c95b4ad290 * In normaliseFState(), wrap registration of the output paths and the
normal form in a single transaction to ensure that if we crash,
  either everything is registered or nothing is.  This is for
  recoverability: unregistered paths in the store can be deleted
  arbitrarily, while registered paths can only be deleted by running
  the garbage collector.
2003-08-01 15:41:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d99d04e644 * Defensive programming against POSIX locking idiocy.
* Simplified realiseSlice().
2003-08-01 15:06:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
545145cd58 * normaliseFState() now locks all output paths prior to building, thus
ensuring that simultaneous invocations of Nix don't clobber
  each other's  builds.

* Fixed a bug in `make install'.
2003-08-01 14:11:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9df93f30bd * Don't use substitutes in addToStore(). 2003-08-01 09:01:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
06434072e7 * Put the database verifier in a transaction. 2003-07-31 19:49:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
06d3d7355d * Enclose most operations that update the database in transactions.
* Open all database tables (Db objects) at initialisation time, not
  every time they are used.  This is necessary because tables have to
  outlive all transactions that refer to them.
2003-07-31 16:05:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
177a7782ae * Use a more reasonable log file size (256 KB instead of 10 MB).
* Checkpoint on exit.
2003-07-31 14:28:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a013962bd * Started using Berkeley DB environments. This is necessary for
transaction support (but we don't actually use transactions yet).
2003-07-31 13:47:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
758bd4673a * Set execute bit. 2003-07-31 13:13:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f4c19276d * Basic makefile. 2003-07-31 13:13:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
26ff1cdf89 * A better test case for Nix race conditions. 2003-07-30 14:40:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
64c617e984 * Directories for the manual. 2003-07-30 14:40:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ac02440dc * Test cases for races. 2003-07-30 13:35:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
aaee69cfde * INSTALL_DATA -> INSTALL_PROGRAM to ensure that the execute bit
remains set.
2003-07-30 10:14:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
83075304e5 * Don't make the builder executable. 2003-07-30 09:49:47 +00:00