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diff --git a/third_party/nix/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.6.xml b/third_party/nix/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.6.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 6dc6521d3c2a..000000000000 --- a/third_party/nix/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-0.6.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,122 +0,0 @@ -<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" - xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" - xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" - version="5.0" - xml:id="ch-relnotes-0.6"> - -<title>Release 0.6 (2004-11-14)</title> - -<itemizedlist> - - <listitem> - <para>Rewrite of the normalisation engine. - - <itemizedlist> - - <listitem><para>Multiple builds can now be performed in parallel - (option <option>-j</option>).</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Distributed builds. Nix can now call a shell - script to forward builds to Nix installations on remote - machines, which may or may not be of the same platform - type.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Option <option>--fallback</option> allows - recovery from broken substitutes.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Option <option>--keep-going</option> causes - building of other (unaffected) derivations to continue if one - failed.</para></listitem> - - </itemizedlist> - - </para> - - </listitem> - - <listitem><para>Improvements to the garbage collector (i.e., it - should actually work now).</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Setuid Nix installations allow a Nix store to be - shared among multiple users.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Substitute registration is much faster - now.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>A utility <command>nix-build</command> to build a - Nix expression and create a symlink to the result int the current - directory; useful for testing Nix derivations.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Manual updates.</para></listitem> - - <listitem> - - <para><command>nix-env</command> changes: - - <itemizedlist> - - <listitem><para>Derivations for other platforms are filtered out - (which can be overridden using - <option>--system-filter</option>).</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para><option>--install</option> by default now - uninstall previous derivations with the same - name.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para><option>--upgrade</option> allows upgrading to a - specific version.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>New operation - <option>--delete-generations</option> to remove profile - generations (necessary for effective garbage - collection).</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Nicer output (sorted, - columnised).</para></listitem> - - </itemizedlist> - - </para> - - </listitem> - - <listitem><para>More sensible verbosity levels all around (builder - output is now shown always, unless <option>-Q</option> is - given).</para></listitem> - - <listitem> - - <para>Nix expression language changes: - - <itemizedlist> - - <listitem><para>New language construct: <literal>with - <replaceable>E1</replaceable>; - <replaceable>E2</replaceable></literal> brings all attributes - defined in the attribute set <replaceable>E1</replaceable> in - scope in <replaceable>E2</replaceable>.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Added a <function>map</function> - function.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Various new operators (e.g., string - concatenation).</para></listitem> - - </itemizedlist> - - </para> - - </listitem> - - <listitem><para>Expression evaluation is much - faster.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>An Emacs mode for editing Nix expressions (with - syntax highlighting and indentation) has been - added.</para></listitem> - - <listitem><para>Many bug fixes.</para></listitem> - -</itemizedlist> - -</section> |