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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-11-30T11·24+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-11-30T11·24+0000
commitfe15f991e3a65021442b682f187fcbdad06358a8 (patch)
treed7042e866158dd54b9ee76e2d52b70560fde45df /doc/manual/bugs.xml
parent80b742dd520bffd3895b4dadef83d64e70309375 (diff)
* Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database.
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@@ -15,18 +15,6 @@ generation 43 is created which is a descendant of 39, not 42.  So a
 rollback from 43 ought to go back to 39.  This is not currently
 implemented; generations form a linear sequence.</para></listitem>
 
-<listitem><para><emphasis>Build management.</emphasis> In principle it
-is already possible to do build management using Nix (by writing
-builders that perform appropriate build steps), but the Nix expression
-language is not yet powerful enough to make this pleasant (?).  The
-language should be extended with features from the <link
-xlink:href='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/maak/'>Maak build
-manager</link>.  Another interesting idea is to write a
-<command>make</command> implementation that uses Nix as a back-end to
-support <link
-xlink:href='http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#legacy'>legacy</link>
-build files.</para></listitem>
-
 <listitem><para>For security, <command>nix-push</command> manifests
 should be digitally signed, and <command>nix-pull</command> should
 verify the signatures.  The actual NAR archives in the cache do not