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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-09-19T14·01+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-09-19T14·01+0000
commit8a9fe6c11c4cf6ae9f3648ece844a8f392fc1cc0 (patch)
treee8b826f98bb7fd1e12fb6261caf34e77680cde36 /doc/manual/release-notes.xml
parent27f57c901800c085ecc4667748b2c3a2485ee8cb (diff)
* Manpage for nix-copy-closure.
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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
index c3bc060cb119..b19d9a38231f 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+         xml:id="sec-relnotes">
 
 <title>Nix Release Notes</title>
 
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@
 
 <!--==================================================================-->
 
-<section><title>Release 0.11 (TBA)</title>
+<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.11"><title>Release 0.11 (TBA)</title>
 
 <itemizedlist>
 
@@ -17,9 +18,10 @@
   removed.</para></listitem>
 
 
-  <listitem><para><command>nix-copy-closure</command> copies the
-  missing parts of a closure to or from a remote
-  machine.</para></listitem>
+  <listitem><para>The new command <command>nix-copy-closure</command>
+  gives you an easy and efficient way to exchange software between
+  machines.  It copies the missing parts of the closure of a set of
+  store path to or from a remote machine.</para></listitem>
 
 
   <listitem><para><command>nix-prefetch-url</command> now by default
@@ -99,6 +101,21 @@
   <function>builtins.sub</function>,
   <function>builtins.stringLength</function>,
   <function>builtins.substring</function>.</para></listitem>
+
+
+  <listitem><para>TODO: each subscribed channel is its own attribute
+  in the top-level expression generated for the channel, this allows
+  disambiguation (<command>nix-env -qaA</command>).</para></listitem>
+
+
+  <listitem><para>TODO: substitutes table is gone, registering
+  substitutes is now much faster.</para></listitem>
+
+
+  <listitem><para><command>nix-prefetch-url</command> now has a
+  limited form of caching.  This is used by
+  <command>nix-channel</command> to prevent unnecessary downloads when
+  the channel hasn’t changed.</para></listitem>
   
 
 </itemizedlist>