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| author | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2022-04-22 15:17:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2022-05-03 13:43:52 +0200 |
| commit | 4a79cba5118f29b896f3d50164beacd4901ab01f (patch) | |
| tree | 2159770446fb151e12bf82856b6418201ae23bbf /doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md | |
| parent | 404c222444b4c8c60148ccf890cd41611f26b0a0 (diff) | |
Allow selecting derivation outputs using 'installable!outputs'
E.g. 'nixpkgs#glibc^dev,static' or 'nixpkgs#glibc^*'.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md index 7b3ad4e58..efd893662 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md @@ -14,3 +14,13 @@ * `nix build` has a new `--print-out-paths` flag to print the resulting output paths. This matches the default behaviour of `nix-build`. + +* You can now specify which outputs of a derivation `nix` should + operate on using the syntax `installable^outputs`, + e.g. `nixpkgs#glibc^dev,static` or `nixpkgs#glibc^*`. By default, + `nix` will use the outputs specified by the derivation's + `meta.outputsToInstall` attribute if it exists, or all outputs + otherwise. + + Selecting derivation outputs using the attribute selection syntax + (e.g. `nixpkgs#glibc.dev`) no longer works. |