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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2011-08-06T16·05+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2011-08-06T16·05+0000 |
| commit | 1ecc97b6bdb27e56d832ca48cdafd3dbb5185a04 (patch) | |
| tree | 4de27ee42f04bb50766f33a58d830677bd8fa80b /doc/manual | |
| parent | 54945a2950174ded83d58336061b4a9990cdbbfd (diff) | |
* Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angle
brackets, e.g.
import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib>
are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in
the search path. This allows us to get rid of hacks like
import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib"
The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag
and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable,
e.g.,
$ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ...
If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is
lazily thrown.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/release-notes.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml index cf025aaf51..7d0bfe7fdc 100644 --- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml +++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ <para>TODO: “or” keyword.</para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>TODO: Nix expression search path (<literal>import <foo/bar.nix></literal>).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> </section> |