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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2013-09-10 11:21:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2013-09-10 11:21:30 +0200 |
| commit | fecad91b67ee3523a6d8c0ea16ab71925ab6ab6e (patch) | |
| tree | 229967a3494890c0d5b3254668c4a090069d2029 /doc/manual | |
| parent | 0220da3e10e76fd1ef46915493c0f5ed65482fa8 (diff) | |
Update release notes
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/release-notes.xml | 38 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index 6620ef26c..6a0ba68fe 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <!--==================================================================--> -<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.6.0"><title>Release 1.6.0 (TBA)</title> +<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.6.0"><title>Release 1.6.0 (September 10, 2013)</title> <para>In addition to the usual bug fixes, this release has several new features:</para> @@ -42,6 +42,38 @@ features:</para> </listitem> <listitem> + <para><command>nix-env</command> no longer requires a + <literal>*</literal> argument to match all packages, so + <literal>nix-env -qa</literal> is equivalent to <literal>nix-env + -qa '*'</literal>.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para><command>nix-env -i</command> has a new flag + <option>--remove-all</option> (<option>-r</option>) to remove all + previous packages from the profile. This makes it easier to do + declarative package management similar to NixOS’s + <option>environment.systemPackages</option>. For instance, if you + have a specification <filename>my-packages.nix</filename> like this: + +<programlisting> +with import <nixpkgs> {}; +[ thunderbird + geeqie + ... +] +</programlisting> + + then after any change to this file, you can run: + +<screen> +$ nix-env -f my-packages.nix -ir +</screen> + + to update your profile to match the specification.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>The ‘<literal>with</literal>’ language construct is now more lazy. It only evaluates its argument if a variable might actually refer to an attribute in the argument. For instance, this now @@ -92,6 +124,10 @@ in pkgs.bar </itemizedlist> +<para>This release has contributions from Domen Kožar, Eelco Dolstra, +Florian Friesdorf, Gergely Risko, Ivan Kozik, Ludovic Courtès and Shea +Levy.</para> + </section> |