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diff --git a/doc/manual/bugs/bugs.xml b/doc/manual/bugs/bugs.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..aa87e4b57048 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/bugs/bugs.xml @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" + xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> + +<title>Bugs / To-Do</title> + + +<itemizedlist> + +<listitem><para>The man-pages generated from the DocBook documentation +are ugly.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>Generations properly form a tree. E.g., if after +switching to generation 39, we perform an installation action, a +generation 43 is created which is a descendant of 39, not 42. So a +rollback from 43 ought to go back to 39. This is not currently +implemented; generations form a linear sequence.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>For security, <command>nix-push</command> manifests +should be digitally signed, and <command>nix-pull</command> should +verify the signatures. The actual NAR archives in the cache do not +need to be signed, since the manifest contains cryptographic hashes of +these files (and <filename>fetchurl.nix</filename> checks +them).</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>It would be useful to have an option in +<command>nix-env --delete-generations</command> to remove non-current +generations older than a certain age.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>There should be a flexible way to change the user +environment builder. Currently, you have to replace +<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/share/nix/corepkgs/buildenv/builder.pl</filename>, +which is hard-coded into <command>nix-env</command>. Also, the +default builder should be more powerful. For instance, there should +be some way to specify priorities to resolve +collisions.</para></listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</appendix> |