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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.2.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.2.md index 25b830955..0a30e8909 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.2.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.2.md @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ This release has the following improvements and changes: binary caches to see if any of them has a pre-built binary of that path. The configuration setting `binary-caches` contains a list of URLs of binary caches. For instance, doing - + $ nix-env -i thunderbird --option binary-caches http://cache.nixos.org - + will install Thunderbird and its dependencies, using the available pre-built binaries in <http://cache.nixos.org>. The main advantage over the old “manifest”-based method of getting pre-built binaries @@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ This release has the following improvements and changes: need to run `nix-pull` to update your manifest. It’s also more scalable because you don’t need to redownload a giant manifest file every time. - + 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 (<http://nixos.org/channels>) you automatically get the cache <http://cache.nixos.org>. - + Binary caches are created using `nix-push`. For details on the operation and format of binary caches, see the `nix-push` manpage. More details are provided in [this nix-dev @@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ This release has the following improvements and changes: - Multiple output support should now be usable. A derivation can declare that it wants to produce multiple store paths by saying something like - + outputs = [ "lib" "headers" "doc" ]; - + This will cause Nix to pass the intended store path of each output to the builder through the environment variables `lib`, `headers` and `doc`. Other packages can refer to a specific output by referring to `pkg.output`, e.g. - + buildInputs = [ pkg.lib pkg.headers ]; - + If you install a package with multiple outputs using `nix-env`, each output path will be symlinked into the user environment. @@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ This release has the following improvements and changes: 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: - + $ mount --bind /nix/store /nix/store $ mount -o remount,ro,bind /nix/store - + Nix will automatically make `/nix/store` writable as needed (using a private mount namespace) to allow modifications. |