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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b5f19b5652dc..21aed89558d6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,27 @@ changed, so you can still build from source. Also, existing user environments continue to work. Nix 0.8 will automatically upgrade the database schema of previous installations when it is first run. +If you get the error message + + you have an old-style manifest `/nix/var/nix/manifests/[...]'; + please delete it + +you should delete previously downloaded manifests: + + $ rm /nix/var/nix/manifests/* + +If `nix-channel' gives the error message + + manifest `http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/[channel]/MANIFEST' + is too old (i.e., for Nix <= 0.7) + +then you should unsubscribe from the offending channel (`nix-channel +--remove URL'; leave out `/MANIFEST'), and subscribe to the same URL, +with `channels' replaced by `channels-v3' (e.g., +http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable). + +Nix 0.8 has the following improvements: + * The cryptographic hashes used in store paths are now 160 bits long, but encoded in base-32 so that they are still only 32 characters long (e.g., /nix/store/csw87wag8bqlqk7ipllbwypb14xainap-atk-1.9.0). |