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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml | 6 |
4 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml index a7539c4c7..930ed773f 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para> <listitem><para>A list of URLs of binary caches, separated by whitespace. The default is - <literal>http://cache.nixos.org</literal>.</para></listitem> + <literal>https://cache.nixos.org</literal>.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml index c19f44a61..a3a3c9623 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-push.xml @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ The properties that are currently supported are: <listitem><para>Each binary cache has a priority (defaulting to 50). Binary caches are checked for binaries in order of ascending priority; thus a higher number denotes a lower priority. The - binary cache <uri>http://cache.nixos.org</uri> has priority + binary cache <uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri> has priority 40.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -278,14 +278,14 @@ URL <replaceable>url</replaceable> has a binary for <replaceable>p</replaceable>, Nix fetches <replaceable>url/h</replaceable>, where <replaceable>h</replaceable> is the hash part of <replaceable>p</replaceable>. Thus, if we have a -cache <uri>http://cache.nixos.org</uri> and we want to obtain -the store path +cache <uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri> and we want to obtain the +store path <screen> /nix/store/a8922c0h87iilxzzvwn2hmv8x210aqb9-glibc-2.7 </screen> then Nix will attempt to fetch <screen> -http://cache.nixos.org/a8922c0h87iilxzzvwn2hmv8x210aqb9.narinfo +https://cache.nixos.org/a8922c0h87iilxzzvwn2hmv8x210aqb9.narinfo </screen> (Commands such as <command>nix-env -qas</command> will issue an HTTP HEAD request, since it only needs to know if the @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ The fields are as follows: references exist (e.g., <filename>/nix/store/2ma2k0ys8knh4an48n28vigcmc2z8773-linux-headers-2.6.23.16</filename>), Nix will fetch <screen> -http://cache.nixos.org/nar/0zzjpdz46mdn74v09m053yczlz4am038g8r74iy8w43gx8801h70.nar.bz2 +https://cache.nixos.org/nar/0zzjpdz46mdn74v09m053yczlz4am038g8r74iy8w43gx8801h70.nar.bz2 </screen> and decompress and unpack it to <filename>/nix/store/a8922c0h87iilxzzvwn2hmv8x210aqb9-glibc-2.7</filename>.</para> diff --git a/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml b/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml index 56ec39916..efd6cf2bb 100644 --- a/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml +++ b/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ cache</emphasis>, a web server that provides pre-built binaries. For instance, when asked to build <literal>/nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0…-firefox-33.1</literal> from source, Nix would first check if the file -<uri>http://cache.nixos.org/b6gvzjyb2pg0….narinfo</uri> exists, and if -so, fetch the pre-built binary referenced from there; otherwise, it +<uri>https://cache.nixos.org/b6gvzjyb2pg0….narinfo</uri> exists, and +if so, fetch the pre-built binary referenced from there; otherwise, it would fall back to building from source.</para> </simplesect> diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml index 310aa5479..b812915a9 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version="5.0" xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.8"> -<title>Release 1.8 (TBA)</title> +<title>Release 1.8 (December 9, 2014)</title> <itemizedlist> @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ --serve</command> on the remote machine. This requires build slaves to be updated to Nix 1.8.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Nix now uses HTTPS instead of HTTP to access the + default binary cache, + <literal>cache.nixos.org</literal>.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> selectors are now regular expressions. For instance, you can do |