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authorShea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>2018-02-13 18:28:27 -0500
committerShea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>2018-02-14 09:55:43 -0500
commitb095c06139fa267e6050e4c95208c627cc6251b8 (patch)
tree3fb353d3eaa7334a127d5fe30cd6499abe002d16 /doc
parent3fe9767dd33499c2560d209dc13a01f5fcead1f0 (diff)
Add splitVersion primop.
Fixes #1868.
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diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
index 81770bcf6..8a32ed8b5 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
@@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ if builtins ? getEnv then builtins.getEnv "PATH" else ""</programlisting>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><function>builtins.splitVersion</function>
+ <replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Split a string representing a version into its
+ components, by the same version splitting logic underlying the
+ version comparison in <link linkend="ssec-version-comparisons">
+ <command>nix-env -u</command></link>.</para></listitem>
+
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.concatLists</function>
<replaceable>lists</replaceable></term>