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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-10-03T16·47+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-10-03T19·29+0200
commit104e55bb7f593b1ac3c54ffda48a9d72af7fbe6b (patch)
tree92eea5af2736190ec196a4bc68c16ea5f16dff2f /doc/manual/release-notes
parent3800f441e49af78b95d403014459dbb9bb646e8a (diff)
nix-env: Add regular expression support in selectors
So you can now do things like:

  $ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*'
  $ nix-env -qa '.*(firefox|chromium).*'
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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml
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+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@
 
 <itemizedlist>
 
+  <listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> selectors are now regular
+  expressions. For instance, you can do
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*'
+</screen>
+
+  to query all packages with a name containing
+  <literal>zip</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
   <listitem><para>Derivations can specify the new special attribute
   <varname>allowedRequisites</varname>, which has a similar meaning to
   <varname>allowedReferences</varname>. But instead of only enforcing