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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index df0e396b6..cc04a5d80 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -514,8 +514,9 @@ then you should unsubscribe from the offending channel <replaceable>URL</replaceable></command>; leave out <literal>/MANIFEST</literal>), and subscribe to the same URL, with <literal>channels</literal> replaced by <literal>channels-v3</literal> -(e.g., -http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable).</para> +(e.g., <link +xlink:href='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable' +/>).</para> <para>Nix 0.8 has the following improvements: @@ -524,8 +525,9 @@ http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable).</para> <listitem><para>The cryptographic hashes used in store paths are now 160 bits long, but encoded in base-32 so that they are still only 32 characters long (e.g., - /nix/store/csw87wag8bqlqk7ipllbwypb14xainap-atk-1.9.0). (This is - actually a 160 bit truncation of a SHA-256 hash.)</para></listitem> + <filename>/nix/store/csw87wag8bqlqk7ipllbwypb14xainap-atk-1.9.0</filename>). + (This is actually a 160 bit truncation of a SHA-256 + hash.)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Big cleanups and simplifications of the basic store semantics. The notion of "closure store expressions" is gone (and @@ -583,8 +585,9 @@ $ nix-store -q --referrers-closure \ <listitem><para>One-click installation :-) It is now possible to install any top-level component in Nixpkgs directly, through the web - - see, e.g., http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nixpkgs-0.8/. All - you have to do is associate + - see, e.g., <link + xlink:href='http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nixpkgs-0.8/' />. + All you have to do is associate <filename>/nix/bin/nix-install-package</filename> with the MIME type <literal>application/nix-package</literal> (or the extension <filename>.nixpkg</filename>), and clicking on a package link will @@ -740,7 +743,7 @@ $ nix-env -f .../i686-linux.nix -i -E 'x: x.firefoxWrapper'</screen> mechanism.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Nix-pull now stores downloaded manifests in - /nix/var/nix/manifests.</para></listitem> + <filename>/nix/var/nix/manifests</filename>.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Metadata on files in the Nix store is canonicalised after builds: the last-modified timestamp is set to 0 (00:00:00 |