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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2016-04-11T12·16+0200 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2016-04-11T14·20+0200 |
| commit | 867967265b80946dfe1db72d40324b4f9af988ed (patch) | |
| tree | ceaad470e0020b14b6800d539f4c9df24e30c8a5 /doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml | |
| parent | af4fb6ef6169b292c7f54e4278c896cb453c56c5 (diff) | |
Remove manifest support
Manifests have been superseded by binary caches for years. This also gets rid of nix-pull, nix-generate-patches and bsdiff/bspatch.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml | 54 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 54 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml deleted file mode 100644 index eb471677b63f..000000000000 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -<refentry 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="sec-nix-pull"> - -<refmeta> - <refentrytitle>nix-pull</refentrytitle> - <manvolnum>1</manvolnum> - <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo> - <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo> -</refmeta> - -<refnamediv> - <refname>nix-pull</refname> - <refpurpose>register availability of pre-built binaries (deprecated)</refpurpose> -</refnamediv> - -<refsynopsisdiv> - <cmdsynopsis> - <command>nix-pull</command> - <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg> - </cmdsynopsis> -</refsynopsisdiv> - - -<refsection><title>Description</title> - -<note><para>This command and the use of manifests is deprecated. It is -better to use binary caches.</para></note> - -<para>The command <command>nix-pull</command> obtains a list of -pre-built store paths from the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>, and -for each of these store paths, registers a substitute derivation that -downloads and unpacks it into the Nix store. This is used to speed up -installations: if you attempt to install something that has already -been built and stored into the network cache, Nix can transparently -re-use the pre-built store paths.</para> - -<para>The file at <replaceable>url</replaceable> must be compatible -with the files created by <replaceable>nix-push</replaceable>.</para> - -</refsection> - - -<refsection><title>Examples</title> - -<screen> -$ nix-pull https://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-15.05pre54468.69858d7/MANIFEST</screen> - -</refsection> - - -</refentry> |