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Eelco Dolstra
0ca0a4da9f * Valgrind suppressions for the ATerm library. The ATerm library uses
a conservative garbage collector that scans the stack and parts of
  the heap for pointers to ATerms.  This scan can touch uninitialised
  memory, which is harmless.  Use:

  $ valgrind --suppressions=aterm-gc.supp ...
2006-02-13 12:48:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
da0a6b6499 * Doh. 2006-02-12 21:00:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
982399bb14 * Enable the --attr in nix-build as well (and add -A as an alias).
Example:

    $ nix-build ./all-packages.nix -A xlibs.libX11

  So finally it's easy to perform a test build of a Nix expression!
2006-02-10 17:37:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c6120352b3 * In nix-instantiate, allow us to specify a "path" to the
derivation(s) we're interested, e.g.,

    $ nix-instantiate ./all-packages.nix --attr xlibs.libX11

  List elements can also be selected:

    $ nix-instantiate ./build-for-release.nix --attr 0.subversion

  This allows a non-ambiguous specification of a derivation.  Of
  course, this should also be added to nix-env and nix-build.
2006-02-10 17:25:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b505f9eaf5 * Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin. 2006-02-10 15:29:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e51abc7dc * Make --parse-only work when *not* reading from stdin. 2006-02-10 15:28:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f848a45739 * Cleanup: use the code shared with nix-env. 2006-02-10 15:14:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4eb637c799 * When querying all derivations, filter out syntactically equal derivations. 2006-02-08 16:15:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8688e83194 * When evaluating, automatically call functions with default arguments. 2006-02-08 15:22:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f8aadf14c3 * Test-driven development, woohoo! nix-env should work on functions,
provided that all arguments have defaults.
2006-02-08 15:21:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
287d0ef41c * Oops, fix breakage. 2006-02-08 14:32:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e771e59178 * Tests for nix-env, finally! 2006-02-08 14:32:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
39f50db731 * Refactoring: move derivation evaluation to libexpr. 2006-02-08 13:21:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4db4b61380 * Don't install nix.conf (so it won't be overriden when you upgrade an RPM). 2006-02-07 14:47:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
81de538e46 * Use setsid instead of setpgrp in child processes. This not only
creates a new process group but also a new session.  New sessions
  have no controlling tty, so child processes like ssh cannot open
  /dev/tty (which is bad).
2006-02-03 14:20:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b90daaaf6c * When killing a build hook, kill the entire process group (as
intended).  This ensures that any ssh child processes to remote
  machines are also killed, and thus the Nix process on the remote
  machine also exits.  Without this, the remote Nix process will
  continue until it exists or until its stdout buffer gets full and it
  locks up.  (Partially fixes NIX-35.)
2006-02-02 16:27:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6e2eaaec96 * Print a better error message when writing the patched file (e.g.,
"No space left on device" instead of "Success").  Reported by Karina
  Olmos.
2006-02-01 17:28:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d9d6ff9f8e * Doh. 2006-02-01 16:49:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8291f6d968 * bsdiff updated to 4.3. This makes Nix depend on libbz2. 2006-02-01 16:48:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e4ffc43a2 * The "S" bit should be based on the output path, not the derivation path. 2006-02-01 16:47:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3eba483692 * Use Berkeley DB 4.4.20. 2006-02-01 14:52:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
151f10dbc7 * Add @bindir@. 2006-02-01 12:41:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
83424eb71b * Don't force a build of derivations. 2006-01-26 23:18:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
db2275cb99 * Oops, the "I" bit in "nix-env -qas" was broken. Reported by Nicolae Vintila. 2006-01-26 23:18:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1029716a8a * Don't show cycles, they're not very useful. 2006-01-19 15:35:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e4d4969ae9 * New tools nix-pack-closure and nix-unpack-closure. These provide a
useful way to transfer the closure of a store path to another
  machine.

  These commands provide functionality previously possible through
  `nix-push --copy'.  However, they are much more convenient in many
  situations (though possibly less efficient).
  
  Example:
  $ nix-pack-closure /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0 > svn.closure
  (on another machine:)
  $ nix-unpack-closure < svn.closure

  Note that Subversion is added to the store, but not installed into a
  user environment.  One should do `nix-env -i
  /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0' for that.

  Another example: copy the application Azureus to the machine
  `scratchy' through ssh:
  
  $ nix-pack-closure $(which azureus) | ssh scratchy nix-unpack-closure
2006-01-12 15:17:51 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5b527901ae * dirOf: return "/", not "", for paths in the root directory. Fixes NIX-26. 2006-01-09 14:52:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
04be39734f * Resolve all symlink components in the location of the temporary
build directory (TMPDIR, i.e., /tmp).  Fixes NIX-26.
2006-01-08 17:16:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0f8d3c871b * More GCC 2.95 compatibility. 2005-12-25 11:29:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
52d20ef124 * Hack around a GCC 2.95 bug. 2005-12-25 02:02:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1440419b45 * GCC 2.95 compatibility. 2005-12-24 23:32:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1d2460ee5d * Documentation fixes. 2005-12-24 23:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f96d2dea26 * Added a flag --ignore-liveness' to nix-store --delete'. It
deletes a path even if it is reachable from a root.  However, it
  won't delete a path that still has referrers (since that would
  violate store invariants).

  Don't try this at home.  It's a useful hack for recovering from
  certain situations in a somewhat clean way (e.g., holes in closures
  due to disk corruption).
2005-12-23 21:36:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4b9e7f59ca * Revived the old "nix-store --delete" operation that deletes the
specified paths from the Nix store.  However, this operation is
  safe: it refuses to delete anything that the garbage collector
  wouldn't delete.
2005-12-23 21:08:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c5619c7e4 * Begin release notes. 2005-12-15 21:11:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
530b27df1e * `nix-store --gc' prints out the number of bytes freed on stdout
(even when it is interrupted by a signal).
2005-12-15 21:11:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5144f750c4 * Typo. 2005-12-15 17:04:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b1eed6b586 * Split the database upgrade into multiple transactions to prevent
Berkeley DB from running out of locks.
2005-12-15 16:53:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
11a8dc76d6 * Doh! 2005-12-15 13:45:10 +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
d87549c1c7 * Automatically delete the old referers table. 2005-12-12 19:14:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8463f27d8c * Fix NIX-23: quadratic complexity in maintaining the referers
mapping.  The referer table is replaced by a referrer table (note
  spelling fix) that stores each referrer separately.  That is,
  instead of having

    referer[P] = {Q_1, Q_2, Q_3, ...}

  we store

    referer[(P, Q_1)] = ""
    referer[(P, Q_2)] = ""
    referer[(P, Q_3)] = ""
    ...

  To find the referrers of P, we enumerate over the keys with a value
  lexicographically greater than P.  This requires the referrer table
  to be stored as a B-Tree rather than a hash table.

  (The tuples (P, Q) are stored as P + null-byte + Q.)

  Old Nix databases are upgraded automatically to the new schema.
2005-12-12 18:24:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
18bbcb1214 * Add a test to demonstrate the quadratic complexity of referrer
(de)registration, in particular garbage collection (NIX-23).
2005-12-11 19:25:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a33b561a6b * Use Berkeley DB 4.4's process registry feature to recover from
crashed Nix instances, and toss out our own recovery code.
2005-12-09 22:55:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eb268a7f95 * Apply the patch. 2005-12-08 22:14:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dfffd92568 * A patch to make the DB_REGISTER feature work when debug info is not on. 2005-12-08 18:18:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
760264bffe * Require Berkeley DB 4.4.
* Checkpoint after an upgrade.
2005-12-06 15:00:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
dc528128cc * FreeBSD compatibility fix. 2005-11-17 13:58:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
44409f52c1 * "Fix" the test, since we cannot feasibly support the intended semantics. 2005-11-17 11:58:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b7f008fc35 * Did something useful while waiting at IAD: reference scanning is now
much faster.
2005-11-16 08:27:06 +00:00