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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.9.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.9.md index 92c6af90b..b56e3a9fc 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.9.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-1.9.md @@ -5,17 +5,17 @@ features: - Signed binary cache support. You can enable signature checking by adding the following to `nix.conf`: - + signed-binary-caches = * binary-cache-public-keys = cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY= - + This will prevent Nix from downloading any binary from the cache that is not signed by one of the keys listed in `binary-cache-public-keys`. - + Signature checking is only supported if you built Nix with the `libsodium` package. - + Note that while Nix has had experimental support for signed binary caches since version 1.7, this release changes the signature format in a backwards-incompatible way. @@ -24,79 +24,79 @@ features: you can now specify the URL of a tarball containing Nix expressions (such as Nixpkgs), which will be downloaded and unpacked automatically. For example: - + - In `nix-env`: - + $ nix-env -f https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz -iA firefox - + This installs Firefox from the latest tested and built revision of the NixOS 14.12 channel. - + - In `nix-build` and `nix-shell`: - + $ nix-build https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/master.tar.gz -A hello - + This builds GNU Hello from the latest revision of the Nixpkgs master branch. - + - In the Nix search path (as specified via `NIX_PATH` or `-I`). For example, to start a shell containing the Pan package from a specific version of Nixpkgs: - + $ nix-shell -p pan -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/8a3eea054838b55aca962c3fbde9c83c102b8bf2.tar.gz - + - In `nixos-rebuild` (on NixOS): - + $ nixos-rebuild test -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-unstable.tar.gz - + - In Nix expressions, via the new builtin function `fetchTarball`: - + with import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz) {}; … - + (This is not allowed in restricted mode.) - `nix-shell` improvements: - + - `nix-shell` now has a flag `--run` to execute a command in the `nix-shell` environment, e.g. `nix-shell --run make`. This is like the existing `--command` flag, except that it uses a non-interactive shell (ensuring that hitting Ctrl-C won’t drop you into the child shell). - + - `nix-shell` can now be used as a `#!`-interpreter. This allows you to write scripts that dynamically fetch their own dependencies. For example, here is a Haskell script that, when invoked, first downloads GHC and the Haskell packages on which it depends: - + #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell #! nix-shell -i runghc -p haskellPackages.ghc haskellPackages.HTTP - + import Network.HTTP - + main = do resp <- Network.HTTP.simpleHTTP (getRequest "http://nixos.org/") body <- getResponseBody resp print (take 100 body) - + Of course, the dependencies are cached in the Nix store, so the second invocation of this script will be much faster. - Chroot improvements: - + - Chroot builds are now supported on Mac OS X (using its sandbox mechanism). - + - If chroots are enabled, they are now used for all derivations, including fixed-output derivations (such as `fetchurl`). The latter do have network access, but can no longer access the host filesystem. If you need the old behaviour, you can set the option `build-use-chroot` to `relaxed`. - + - On Linux, if chroots are enabled, builds are performed in a private PID namespace once again. (This functionality was lost in Nix 1.8.) - + - Store paths listed in `build-chroot-dirs` are now automatically expanded to their closure. For instance, if you want `/nix/store/…-bash/bin/sh` mounted in your chroot as `/bin/sh`, |