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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2008-11-18T14·43+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2008-11-18T14·43+0000
commitfa791116a35479bd295f5666c8d35fba60e0c98d (patch)
tree8b0ec403ac381b15dffaf61ef04fe0a8b221cfe7 /doc/manual/release-notes.xml
parent3f4ed681c2e16ab7a73e31835a6a7e29d5857dd7 (diff)
* Get rid of nix-pack-closure / nix-unpack-closure, they're redundant.
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@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@
   <listitem><para><command>nix-prefetch-url</command> now supports
   <literal>mirror://</literal> URLs.</para></listitem>
 
+  <listitem><para>Removed the commands
+  <command>nix-pack-closure</command> and
+  <command>nix-unpack-closure</command>.   You can do almost the same
+  thing but much more efficiently by doing <literal>nix-store --export
+  $(nix-store -qR <replaceable>paths</replaceable>) > closure</literal> and
+  <literal>nix-store --import &lt; closure</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>
 
 </section>