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Eelco Dolstra 566afa1e9c Support xz compression of nixexprs.tar in channels 2012-12-05 11:02:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d3004c78d9 Don't use -warning=no-timestamp unless we have GNU tar
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2998485
2012-09-11 13:07:22 -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 46f852cda0 Use a GNU tar flag to shut up warnings about implausibly old timestamp 2012-08-01 16:42:51 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra afa7e01878 Inline unpack-channel.sh 2012-08-01 16:34:17 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 663c06e8cd Disable building in chroot for Nix's corepkgs
The dependencies of the corepkgs are not necessarily in the chroot (or
in the Nix store), so don't build them in a chroot.
2012-05-09 22:14:36 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra c722193a91 Don't use the build hook for unpacking channels 2012-04-26 16:52:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0b5107c016 If the (redirected) channel URL contains a version number, use it 2012-04-14 21:05:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra e855c7e2c9 nix-channel improvements
"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name.
This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable.
If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL
(with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed).

Also, channels are now stored in a profile
(/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels).  One advantage of
this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives
an undesirable update).
2012-04-14 18:38:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 39d45a6b09 * Add a test for nix-channel.
* Refactor the nix-channel unpacker a bit.
2012-01-03 01:51:38 +00:00