wroclaw-git-backups/nix
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/NixOS/nix synced 2025-07-16 02:01:59 +02:00
Code Activity

* Manual updates (especially how nix-build makes testing packages much

Browse source 
easier; no longer need a helper expression).
This commit is contained in:
Eelco Dolstra 2006-10-02 11:50:55 +00:00
parent 91a01e6fcf
commit f316b6c1a9
5 changed files with 120 additions and 81 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

17
doc/manual/release-notes.xml
View file

@ -514,8 +514,9 @@ then you should unsubscribe from the offending channel
<replaceable>URL</replaceable></command>; leave out
<literal>/MANIFEST</literal>), and subscribe to the same URL, with
<literal>channels</literal> replaced by <literal>channels-v3</literal>
(e.g.,
http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable).</para>
(e.g., <link
xlink:href='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable'
/>).</para>
<para>Nix 0.8 has the following improvements:
@ -524,8 +525,9 @@ http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable).</para>
<listitem><para>The cryptographic hashes used in store paths are now
160 bits long, but encoded in base-32 so that they are still only 32
characters long (e.g.,
/nix/store/csw87wag8bqlqk7ipllbwypb14xainap-atk-1.9.0). (This is
actually a 160 bit truncation of a SHA-256 hash.)</para></listitem>
<filename>/nix/store/csw87wag8bqlqk7ipllbwypb14xainap-atk-1.9.0</filename>).
(This is actually a 160 bit truncation of a SHA-256
hash.)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Big cleanups and simplifications of the basic store
semantics. The notion of "closure store expressions" is gone (and
@ -583,8 +585,9 @@ $ nix-store -q --referrers-closure \
<listitem><para>One-click installation :-) It is now possible to
install any top-level component in Nixpkgs directly, through the web
- see, e.g., http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nixpkgs-0.8/. All
you have to do is associate
- see, e.g., <link
xlink:href='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nixpkgs-0.8/' />.
All you have to do is associate
<filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename> with the MIME type
<literal>application/nix-package</literal> (or the extension
<filename>.nixpkg</filename>), and clicking on a package link will
@ -740,7 +743,7 @@ $ nix-env -f .../i686-linux.nix -i -E 'x: x.firefoxWrapper'</screen>
mechanism.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Nix-pull now stores downloaded manifests in
/nix/var/nix/manifests.</para></listitem>
<filename>/nix/var/nix/manifests</filename>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Metadata on files in the Nix store is canonicalised
after builds: the last-modified timestamp is set to 0 (00:00:00