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Eelco Dolstra
fe15f991e3 * Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database. 2006-11-30 11:24:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
745e354b19 * Push. 2006-11-14 10:23:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2a70b7ec0 * Magic attribute `exportReferencesGraph' that allows the references
graph to be passed to a builder.  This attribute should be a list of
  pairs [name1 path1 name2 path2 ...].  The references graph of each
  `pathN' will be stored in a text file `nameN' in the temporary build
  directory.  The text files have the format used by `nix-store
  --register-validity'.  However, the deriver fields are left empty.

  `exportReferencesGraph' is useful for builders that want to do
  something with the closure of a store path.  Examples: the builders
  that make initrds and ISO images for NixOS.

  `exportReferencesGraph' is entirely pure.  It's necessary because
  otherwise the only way for a builder to get this information would
  be to call `nix-store' directly, which is not allowed (though
  unfortunately possible).
2006-11-13 18:18:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e40d4a5604 * Option --reregister' in nix-store --register-validity'. We need
this in the NixOS installer (or in the buildfarm) to ensure that the
  cryptographic hash of the path contents still matches the actual
  contents.
2006-11-13 16:48:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
005eecfc4d * Release notes. 2006-10-30 16:29:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ae6fb27f18 * `nix-store --read-log / -l PATH' shows the build log of PATH, if
available.  For instance,

    $ nix-store -l $(which svn) | less

  lets you read the build log of the Subversion instance in your
  profile.

* `nix-store -qb': if applied to a non-derivation, take the deriver.
2006-10-28 16:33:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
99b0ea7c67 * Typo reported by Arie Middelkoop.
* Left out close-quote in example.
2006-10-26 23:06:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d4567f2cc * Removed URIs from the evaluator (NIX-66). They are now just another
kind of notation for strings.
2006-10-11 21:59:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b4e012ab4d * Merge 0.10.1 release notes. 2006-10-11 13:39:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e1cc84259c * Too lazy to document nix-push --copy. 2006-10-06 09:59:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b3fc016061 * Translate Unicode quote characters to ASCII equivalents when
generating NEWS.txt.
2006-10-06 09:03:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3815d2d463 * Typos etc.
* Set the release date.
2006-10-06 07:47:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
beee18de88 * Document nix-store --delete. 2006-10-05 23:13:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
eff573f563 * Work around a weird bug in the manpage generation. 2006-10-05 23:01:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9e08f5efe1 * Documented nix-store --dump / --restore. 2006-10-05 22:57:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8791ffbc88 * Documented new nix-env options. 2006-10-05 22:56:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
99ef620c8c * Documented nix-instantiate --xml, --strict.
* Added an example to the nix-build section.
2006-10-05 20:41:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8396b59286 * Documented --attr / -A. 2006-10-05 20:07:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5d769de8a3 * Document --arg. 2006-10-05 09:08:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f2bfd92b6 * Manual. 2006-10-05 08:21:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
34427a7b43 * Weird. 2006-10-04 17:07:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a3fd53b9eb * Style tweak. 2006-10-04 17:07:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
59ef0aaf3f * Strings. 2006-10-04 16:02:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
407c9fd520 * Explanation of toXML example. 2006-10-04 15:20:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0ef3bd3c37 * Use GIF callouts instead of PNG since the GIFs have transparency. 2006-10-04 12:20:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a7ece698b 2006-10-04 08:26:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd4f1b4bb8 * Style tweaks. 2006-10-04 08:14:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
96fa456a0a * An example of using toXML to pass structured information to a
builder and generate a Jetty configuration file with XSLT.
2006-10-03 15:39:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3837fb233c * Document the built-in functions. 2006-10-03 15:19:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
84e6c43e85 * Documented nix-hash. 2006-10-02 22:11:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
cfe35ca0e0 * Manual. 2006-10-02 20:28:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
853252ac66 * Document the new let. 2006-10-02 16:14:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f316b6c1a9 * Manual updates (especially how nix-build makes testing packages much
easier; no longer need a helper expression).
2006-10-02 11:50:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
91a01e6fcf * Manual. 2006-10-02 09:01:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
88d422567e * One-click installs. 2006-09-29 14:59:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0212feeed6 * Document nix-install-package and the nixpkg file format. 2006-09-29 14:16:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
070e07ed5a * Manual. 2006-09-29 11:03:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
30c7db85d8 * Manual updates, some style improvements. 2006-09-29 10:31:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2eed05224 * Manual updates.
* Documented nix-{pack,unpack}-closure.
2006-09-28 09:10:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
015ac7c7da * Release notes. 2006-09-27 13:27:26 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a9a6356ffc * Release notes. 2006-09-27 12:43:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e47d42536f * Release notes. 2006-09-26 09:57:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f00bc4c94c * "Too many links" error. 2006-09-12 09:29:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a04a65d7a5 * Release notes. 2006-09-06 14:29:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f41297fdce * Allow --arg in nix-env as well, example:
$ nix-env -qa --system-filter \* --arg system '"powerpc-darwin"'

  to override the system from the default value (__currentSystem in
  all-packages.nix).
2006-08-23 16:33:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
68515b5a96 * Release notes. 2006-08-22 13:19:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1a9a1f2768 * Convert to DocBook 5.
* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2006-08-21 16:05:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
601a8eab79 * Ugh. Darwin's chmod insists that flags come before the mode
specification.
2006-08-01 12:00:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b11aeb2c4b * Doh. 2006-07-25 13:15:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5744dd5480 * Support the --attr / -A flag in nix-env as well. So now we can do,
e.g.,

  $ nix-env -i -A subversion xorg.xorgserver

  The main advantage over using symbolic names is that using attribute
  names is unambiguous and much, much faster.
2006-07-25 11:53:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c15f544356 * Call find-runtime-roots.pl from the garbage collector to prevent
running applications etc. from being garbage collected.
2006-07-20 12:17:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
48e4a3231b 2006-06-14 13:31:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
50fe85f016 * For fixed-output derivations, pass the environment variables listed
in the attribute variable `impureEnvVars' from the caller to the
  builder.
2006-05-31 09:51:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b5aa91aa7 2006-05-08 14:00:39 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
20675feeab * Update copyright. 2006-03-15 12:58:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
345a95afe9 * Allow the size of the GC reserved file to be specified in nix.conf
through the new `gc-reserved-space' option.
2006-02-16 13:58:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b505f9eaf5 * Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin. 2006-02-10 15:29:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1d2460ee5d * Documentation fixes. 2005-12-24 23:22:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3c5619c7e4 * Begin release notes. 2005-12-15 21:11:55 +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
1b43fbd8e4 * Oops, that should be Berkeley DB 4.3. Reported by Gerco Ballintijn. 2005-10-18 14:09:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
62412c5874 * Document `nix-env --compare-versions'. 2005-10-06 15:51:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ed4de220d2 * Use "source" instead of ".". 2005-09-28 09:00:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fbedf6056e * Merge release notes. 2005-09-22 12:23:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
db1a4227a3 * Updated release notes. 2005-09-16 11:28:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c28b8eb699 * svn:ignores.
* Add missing file to dist.
2005-09-16 10:35:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5c0770ac84 * Include the release notes in the manual. 2005-09-16 08:47:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
1b62c2eba3 * Force release notes in ASCII, not UTF-8. 2005-09-15 20:29:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d1d0271996 * Check for w3m. 2005-09-15 15:21:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
5818e8eeaf * Remove dead code. 2005-09-14 18:51:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
025086edea * Release notes in Docbook; ASCII release notes (i.e., the `NEWS'
file) is now generated from that using `w3m' and some XSL hackery.
2005-09-14 18:50:45 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
78c72bf10e * channels -> channels-v3, catamaran -> nix.cs.uu.nl. 2005-08-01 07:30:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
a5ceb5bc0b * nix-build: default to `./default.nix' if no paths are specified.
So when using Nix as a build tool, you can just say `nix-build' and
  it will build the top-level derivation defined in `default.nix'.
2005-07-13 17:39:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
88dea78cdf * Crazy: don't use real hashes of real components in examples, since
they cause Nix builds to have unnecessary retained dependences
  (e.g., on Subversion).
2005-05-09 09:58:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
82d771f6e6 * Manual updates. 2005-04-10 20:54:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fb45b0f548 * Document nix-channel. 2005-04-09 17:16:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
8b70f138e0 * Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'
options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-08 13:00:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b9d8ecbc6a * More doc updates. 2005-04-07 15:51:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
57d023a184 * More manual updates. 2005-04-07 10:47:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f1ae10b992 * Build hook documentation.
* nix-store options.
2005-04-07 09:36:35 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
806b91f104 * GC docs. 2005-04-07 08:17:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
128c174295 * Manual updates. 2005-04-05 15:28:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
229252941a * Some GC documentation. 2005-04-05 11:30:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6c8cf567b8 * Use `--nonet' flag. 2005-04-05 11:29:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a83c12c5d * Added a glossary to the manual. 2005-04-01 15:34:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
67eff20906 * Manual updates. 2005-03-17 10:30:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ad3121a52d * Documented common environment variables. 2005-03-16 16:45:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
f982df3cd7 * Update the user environments figure to show multiple profiles and
users.
* Change to base-32 hashes.
2005-03-16 14:40:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
afc3a7b79b * Automake 1.9 compatibility. 2005-03-16 10:46:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
693ff4f6bf * Some more updates. 2005-03-15 15:42:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
e301334696 * XInclude all the way. 2005-03-15 13:55:41 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b376565b86 * Manual updates. 2005-03-15 13:21:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
7d75616f2c * NEWS and manual update for release 0.7. 2005-01-12 10:27:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
015beb7cd0 * Typo: genericBuilder -> genericBuild. 2004-12-17 13:46:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
9f8964a062 * More manual fixes. 2004-11-14 10:42:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
0b79a12082 * Manual fixes. 2004-11-14 00:24:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
54c7a870d5 * Document --delete-generations and other nix-env options. 2004-11-12 23:56:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2b0d6b02f * Document --eval-only and --parse-only options in nix-instantiate. 2004-11-12 23:22:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
32c7326850 * Typos. 2004-11-09 14:06:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
b8aaef5e4e * Documented the standard environment, including the generic builder. 2004-11-07 22:12:16 +00:00