Remove nix-build --hash

Instead, if a fixed-output derivation produces has an incorrect output
hash, we now unconditionally move the outputs to the path
corresponding with the actual hash and register it as valid. Thus,
after correcting the hash in the Nix expression (e.g. in a fetchurl
call), the fixed-output derivation doesn't have to be built again.

It would still be good to have a command for reporting the actual hash
of a fixed-output derivation (instead of throwing an error), but
"nix-build --hash" didn't do that.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.0.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.0.xml
index 0d485c36928c..32cdb1d0cefc 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.0.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.0.xml
@@ -99,11 +99,11 @@
   </listitem>
 
   <listitem>
-    <para>New build mode <command>nix-build --hash</command> that
-    builds a derivation, computes the hash of the output, and moves
-    the output to the store path corresponding to what a fixed-output
-    derivation with that hash would produce.
-    (Add docs and examples; see d367b8e7875161e655deaa96bf8a5dd0bcf8229e)</para>
+    <para>If a fixed-output derivation produces a result with an
+    incorrect hash, the output path will be moved to the location
+    corresponding to the actual hash and registered as valid. Thus, a
+    subsequent build of the fixed-output derivation with the correct
+    hash is unnecessary.</para>
   </listitem>
 
   <listitem>