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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
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’
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
Reported by Shea.
2012-10-12 10:21:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
bfaa5635de Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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’
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
You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
2012-07-30 16:39:31 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
f15083c10a Document the --option flag
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
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
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
Eelco Dolstra
587b408210 Set release date 2012-05-11 17:40:58 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
8a08813d6c Manual updates 2012-05-11 17:39:06 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2b00e6990c CSS tweaks 2012-05-11 16:21:21 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
4d383f57f4 Document "nix-build --run-env" 2012-05-10 19:29:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
6a7b24a3f2 Document "nix-store --add" 2012-05-10 18:09:45 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
cb1248d208 Document some nix-store subcommands 2012-05-09 19:06:39 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
7a213ffc69 Document $NIX_PATH / -I 2012-05-09 19:06:13 -04:00