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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.7.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.7.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 6f95db436..000000000 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.7.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" - xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" - xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" - version="5.0" - xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.7"> - -<title>Release 0.7 (2005-01-12)</title> - -<itemizedlist> - - <listitem><para>Binary patching. When upgrading components using - pre-built binaries (through nix-pull / nix-channel), Nix can - automatically download and apply binary patches to already installed - components instead of full downloads. Patching is “smart”: if there - is a <emphasis>sequence</emphasis> of patches to an installed - component, Nix will use it. Patches are currently generated - automatically between Nixpkgs (pre-)releases.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Simplifications to the substitute - mechanism.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Nix-pull now stores downloaded manifests in - <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 - 1/1/1970), the mode is set to 0444 or 0555 (readable and possibly - executable by all; setuid/setgid bits are dropped), and the group is - set to the default. This ensures that the result of a build and an - installation through a substitute is the same; and that timestamp - dependencies are revealed.</para></listitem> - -</itemizedlist> - -</section> |