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| author | Qyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me> | 2024-05-01 19:55:26 -0600 |
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| committer | Qyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me> | 2024-05-02 12:59:15 -0600 |
| commit | e0911eef73e36d5b42ebd2e9fa114d535ab287f7 (patch) | |
| tree | 23d258d39e0b08590d162c142aead5d204718587 /doc/manual | |
| parent | ce70f02aff058c6438119e9946122f86431151f1 (diff) | |
nix3-profile: make element names stable
Based off of commit 6268a45b650f563bae2360e0540920a2959bdd40
Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9656
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I0fcf069a8537c61ad6fc4eee1f3c193a708ea1c4
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/rl-next/nix-profile-names.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/nix-profile-names.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/nix-profile-names.md index 2a37691e6..53dc53fa9 100644 --- a/doc/manual/rl-next/nix-profile-names.md +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/nix-profile-names.md @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ --- synopsis: "`nix profile` now allows referring to elements by human-readable name, and no longer accepts indices" prs: 8678 -cls: 978 +cls: [978, 980] --- -[`nix profile`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile.md) now uses names to refer to installed packages when running [`list`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-list.md), [`remove`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-remove.md) or [`upgrade`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-upgrade.md) as opposed to indices. Indices have been removed. +[`nix profile`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile.md) now uses names to refer to installed packages when running [`list`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-list.md), [`remove`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-remove.md) or [`upgrade`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-upgrade.md) as opposed to indices. Indices have been removed. Profile element names are generated when a package is installed and remain the same until the package is removed. + +**Warning**: The `manifest.nix` file used to record the contents of profiles has changed. Nix will automatically upgrade profiles to the new version when you modify the profile. After that, the profile can no longer be used by older versions of Nix. |