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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-03-08 01:24:59 +0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-03-08 01:24:59 +0100
commitbdd4646338da296fdf3a8f9dc3cf5aff1dafa163 (patch)
tree8bda49fe3eaef361a025c0f3b64ea51ea7728cbe /doc/manual
parente73d9e948887621906363a35c980538294898a02 (diff)
Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f484eae38e8a15dcec73cfa999156f6.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/builtins.xml12
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/opt-common.xml9
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/release-notes.xml57
3 files changed, 74 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/builtins.xml
index 9f5f4438c..b75f58e21 100644
--- a/doc/manual/builtins.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/builtins.xml
@@ -302,6 +302,18 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.hashString</function>
+ <replaceable>type</replaceable> <replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Return a base-16 representation of the
+ cryptographic hash of string <replaceable>s</replaceable>. The
+ hash algorithm specified by <replaceable>type</replaceable> must
+ be one of <literal>"md5"</literal>, <literal>"sha1"</literal> or
+ <literal>"sha256"</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.head</function>
<replaceable>list</replaceable></term>
diff --git a/doc/manual/opt-common.xml b/doc/manual/opt-common.xml
index 72971bd6a..329345773 100644
--- a/doc/manual/opt-common.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/opt-common.xml
@@ -343,10 +343,11 @@
<varlistentry><term><option>-I</option> <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>Add a path to the Nix expression search path. See
- the <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> environment variable for details. Paths
- added through <option>-I</option> take precedence over
- <envar>NIX_PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Add a path to the Nix expression search path. This
+ option may be given multiple times. See the <envar>NIX_PATH</envar>
+ environment variable for information on the semantics of the Nix
+ search path. Paths added through <option>-I</option> take
+ precedence over <envar>NIX_PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
index e7e9bf3c5..a078be83d 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,63 @@
<!--==================================================================-->
+<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.5.1"><title>Release 1.5.1 (February 28, 2013)</title>
+
+<para>The bug fix to the bug fix had a bug itself, of course. But
+this time it will work for sure!</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!--==================================================================-->
+
+<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.5"><title>Release 1.5 (February 27, 2013)</title>
+
+<para>This is a brown paper bag release to fix a regression introduced
+by the hard link security fix in 1.4.</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!--==================================================================-->
+
+<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.4"><title>Release 1.4 (February 26, 2013)</title>
+
+<para>This release fixes a security bug in multi-user operation. It
+was possible for derivations to cause the mode of files outside of the
+Nix store to be changed to 444 (read-only but world-readable) by
+creating hard links to those files (<link
+xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/5526a282b5b44e9296e61e07d7d2626a79141ac4">details</link>).</para>
+
+<para>There are also the following improvements:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem><para>New built-in function:
+ <function>builtins.hashString</function>.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Build logs are now stored in
+ <filename>/nix/var/log/nix/drvs/<replaceable>XX</replaceable>/</filename>,
+ where <replaceable>XX</replaceable> is the first two characters of
+ the derivation. This is useful on machines that keep a lot of build
+ logs (such as Hydra servers).</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>The function <function>corepkgs/fetchurl</function>
+ can now make the downloaded file executable. This will allow
+ getting rid of all bootstrap binaries in the Nixpkgs source
+ tree.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Language change: The expression <literal>"${./path}
+ ..."</literal> now evaluates to a string instead of a
+ path.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<!--==================================================================-->
+
<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.3"><title>Release 1.3 (January 4, 2013)</title>
<para>This is primarily a bug fix release. When this version is first