[Nix-dev] Nix 1.5.3 released

[Corey O'Connor]

Should this be a transparent upgrade for a nixos system running 1.5.2?
Since this change I've been unable to nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade or use
nix-env. They both seem to get stuck querying the binary cache. Each time I
try a "download-from-binary-cache.pl --query" process is spawned. Which
appears to get stuck. This process is the 1.5.2 version of the script:

/nix/store/sxhiwkydfwcvsm77splhzlda63p8l5cv-nix-1.5.2/libexec/nix/substituters/
download-from-binary-cache.pl --query

Cheers,
Corey


-Corey O'Connor
coreyoconnor at gmail.com
http://corebotllc.com/


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Eelco Dolstra
<eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new stable release of the
> Nix package manager.  Release 1.5.3 can be found at
>
>   http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.5.3
>
> This is primarily a bug fix release. The following changes are noteworthy:
>
>   * Yet another security bug involving hard links to files outside the
> store
>     was fixed. This bug only affected multi-user installations that do not
> have
>     hard link restrictions enabled. (NixOS is thus not vulnerable.)
>
>   * The default binary cache URL has changed from
> http://nixos.org/binary-cache
>     to http://cache.nixos.org. The latter is hosted on Amazon CloudFront
>     (courtesy of LogicBlox) and should provide better performance for
> users in
>     both Europe and North America.
>
>   * The binary cache substituter now prints a warning message if fetching
>     information from the cache takes more than five seconds. Thus network
> or
>     server problems no longer make Nix appear to just hang.
>
>   * Stack traces now show function names, e.g.
>
>     while evaluating `concatMapStrings' at
> `.../nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/strings.nix:18:25':
>
>     Also, if a function is called with an unexpected argument, Nix now
> shows
>     the name of the argument.
>
> --
> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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