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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.2.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.2.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 748fd9e67..000000000 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.2.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,157 +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="ssec-relnotes-1.2"> - -<title>Release 1.2 (2012-12-06)</title> - -<para>This release has the following improvements and changes:</para> - -<itemizedlist> - - <listitem> - <para>Nix has a new binary substituter mechanism: the - <emphasis>binary cache</emphasis>. A binary cache contains - pre-built binaries of Nix packages. Whenever Nix wants to build a - missing Nix store path, it will check a set of binary caches to - see if any of them has a pre-built binary of that path. The - configuration setting <option>binary-caches</option> contains a - list of URLs of binary caches. For instance, doing -<screen> -$ nix-env -i thunderbird --option binary-caches http://cache.nixos.org -</screen> - will install Thunderbird and its dependencies, using the available - pre-built binaries in <uri>http://cache.nixos.org</uri>. - The main advantage over the old “manifest”-based method of getting - pre-built binaries is that you don’t have to worry about your - manifest being in sync with the Nix expressions you’re installing - from; i.e., you don’t need to run <command>nix-pull</command> to - update your manifest. It’s also more scalable because you don’t - need to redownload a giant manifest file every time. - </para> - - <para>A Nix channel can provide a binary cache URL that will be - used automatically if you subscribe to that channel. If you use - the Nixpkgs or NixOS channels - (<uri>http://nixos.org/channels</uri>) you automatically get the - cache <uri>http://cache.nixos.org</uri>.</para> - - <para>Binary caches are created using <command>nix-push</command>. - For details on the operation and format of binary caches, see the - <command>nix-push</command> manpage. More details are provided in - <link xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix-dev/2012-September/009826.html">this - nix-dev posting</link>.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Multiple output support should now be usable. A derivation - can declare that it wants to produce multiple store paths by - saying something like -<programlisting> -outputs = [ "lib" "headers" "doc" ]; -</programlisting> - This will cause Nix to pass the intended store path of each output - to the builder through the environment variables - <literal>lib</literal>, <literal>headers</literal> and - <literal>doc</literal>. Other packages can refer to a specific - output by referring to - <literal><replaceable>pkg</replaceable>.<replaceable>output</replaceable></literal>, - e.g. -<programlisting> -buildInputs = [ pkg.lib pkg.headers ]; -</programlisting> - If you install a package with multiple outputs using - <command>nix-env</command>, each output path will be symlinked - into the user environment.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Dashes are now valid as part of identifiers and attribute - names.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The new operation <command>nix-store --repair-path</command> - allows corrupted or missing store paths to be repaired by - redownloading them. <command>nix-store --verify --check-contents - --repair</command> will scan and repair all paths in the Nix - store. Similarly, <command>nix-env</command>, - <command>nix-build</command>, <command>nix-instantiate</command> - and <command>nix-store --realise</command> have a - <option>--repair</option> flag to detect and fix bad paths by - rebuilding or redownloading them.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Nix no longer sets the immutable bit on files in the Nix - store. Instead, the recommended way to guard the Nix store - against accidental modification on Linux is to make it a read-only - bind mount, like this: - -<screen> -$ mount --bind /nix/store /nix/store -$ mount -o remount,ro,bind /nix/store -</screen> - - Nix will automatically make <filename>/nix/store</filename> - writable as needed (using a private mount namespace) to allow - modifications.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Store optimisation (replacing identical files in the store - with hard links) can now be done automatically every time a path - is added to the store. This is enabled by setting the - configuration option <literal>auto-optimise-store</literal> to - <literal>true</literal> (disabled by default).</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Nix now supports <command>xz</command> compression for NARs - in addition to <command>bzip2</command>. It compresses about 30% - better on typical archives and decompresses about twice as - fast.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Basic Nix expression evaluation profiling: setting the - environment variable <envar>NIX_COUNT_CALLS</envar> to - <literal>1</literal> will cause Nix to print how many times each - primop or function was executed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>New primops: <varname>concatLists</varname>, - <varname>elem</varname>, <varname>elemAt</varname> and - <varname>filter</varname>.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The command <command>nix-copy-closure</command> has a new - flag <option>--use-substitutes</option> (<option>-s</option>) to - download missing paths on the target machine using the substitute - mechanism.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The command <command>nix-worker</command> has been renamed - to <command>nix-daemon</command>. Support for running the Nix - worker in “slave” mode has been removed.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>The <option>--help</option> flag of every Nix command now - invokes <command>man</command>.</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para>Chroot builds are now supported on systemd machines.</para> - </listitem> - -</itemizedlist> - -<para>This release has contributions from Eelco Dolstra, Florian -Friesdorf, Mats Erik Andersson and Shea Levy.</para> - -</section> |