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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/rl-next/deprecate-build-hook.md | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstore/globals.hh | 8 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/deprecate-build-hook.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/deprecate-build-hook.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..30de1298d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/deprecate-build-hook.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +synopsis: "The `build-hook` setting is now deprecated" +category: Breaking Changes +--- + +Build hooks communicate with the daemon using a custom, internal, undocumented protocol that is entirely unversioned and cannot be changed. +Since we intend to change it anyway we must unfortunately deprecate the current build hook infrastructure. +We do not expect this to impact most users—we have not found any uses of `build-hook` in the wild—but if this does affect you, we'd like to hear from you! diff --git a/src/libstore/globals.hh b/src/libstore/globals.hh index 1aeb462d4..4709ac715 100644 --- a/src/libstore/globals.hh +++ b/src/libstore/globals.hh @@ -248,14 +248,18 @@ public: )", {"build-timeout"}}; - Setting<Strings> buildHook{this, {}, "build-hook", + Setting<Strings> buildHook{ + AbstractSetting::deprecated_t{}, + this, {}, "build-hook", R"( The path to the helper program that executes remote builds. Lix communicates with the build hook over `stdio` using a custom protocol to request builds that cannot be performed directly by the Nix daemon. The default value is the internal Lix binary that implements remote building. - > **Important** + > **Warning** + > + > This setting is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Lix. > > Change this setting only if you really know what you’re doing. )"}; |