Merged latest trunk revision R9332 into my state branch :)

scripts/nix-channel.in

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ $ENV{'NIX_DOWNLOAD_CACHE'} = $channelCache if -W $channelCache;
 my $home = $ENV{"HOME"};
 die '$HOME not set' unless defined $home;
 my $channelsList = "$home/.nix-channels";
+
+my $nixDefExpr = "$home/.nix-defexpr";
     
 
 my @channels;
@@ -136,9 +138,12 @@ sub update {
 
     unlink "$rootFile.tmp";
 
-    # Make it the default Nix expression for `nix-env'.
-    system("@bindir@/nix-env", "--import", "$outPath") == 0
-         or die "cannot pull set default Nix expression to `$outPath'";
+    # Make the channels appear in nix-env.
+    unlink $nixDefExpr if -l $nixDefExpr; # old-skool ~/.nix-defexpr
+    mkdir $nixDefExpr or die "cannot create directory `$nixDefExpr'" if !-e $nixDefExpr;
+    my $channelLink = "$nixDefExpr/channels";
+    unlink $channelLink; # !!! not atomic
+    symlink($outPath, $channelLink) or die "cannot symlink `$channelLink' to `$outPath'";
 }
 
 

scripts/nix-install-package.in

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ downloading it from URL.
 
 Flags:
   --profile / -p LINK: install into the specified profile
-  --non-interactive: don't run inside a new terminal XXX
+  --non-interactive: don't run inside a new terminal
 EOF
     ; # '
     exit 1;

scripts/nix-prefetch-url.in

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ if test -z "$finalPath"; then
 
     tmpPath=/tmp/nix-prefetch-url-$$ # !!! security?
     tmpFile=$tmpPath/$name
-    mkdir $tmpPath
+    mkdir $tmpPath # !!! retry if tmpPath already exists
 
     # Optionally do timestamp-based caching of the download.
     # Actually, the only thing that we cache in $NIX_DOWNLOAD_CACHE is

scripts/nix-push.in

@@ -264,8 +264,12 @@ foreach my $narArchive (@narArchives) {
 print STDERR "uploading manifest...\n";
 if ($localCopy) {
     copyFile $manifest, $localManifestFile;
+    copyFile "$manifest.bz2", "$localManifestFile.bz2";
 } else {
     system("$curl --show-error --upload-file " .
            "'$manifest' '$manifestPutURL' > /dev/null") == 0 or
            die "curl failed on $manifest: $?";
+    system("$curl --show-error --upload-file " .
+           "'$manifest'.bz2 '$manifestPutURL'.bz2 > /dev/null") == 0 or
+           die "curl failed on $manifest: $?";
 }

scripts/readmanifest.pm.in

@@ -222,6 +222,14 @@ sub writeManifest
 
     rename("$manifest.tmp", $manifest)
         or die "cannot rename $manifest.tmp: $!";
+
+
+    # Create a bzipped manifest.
+    system("@bzip2@ < $manifest > $manifest.bz2.tmp") == 0
+        or die "cannot compress manifest";
+
+    rename("$manifest.bz2.tmp", "$manifest.bz2")
+        or die "cannot rename $manifest.bz2.tmp: $!";
 }