From 104e55bb7f593b1ac3c54ffda48a9d72af7fbe6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 18:47:16 +0200
Subject: nix-env: Add regular expression support in selectors

So you can now do things like:

  $ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*'
  $ nix-env -qa '.*(firefox|chromium).*'
---
 doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml')

diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml
index de6f891ffbda..0e6150ccf5c7 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.8.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@
 
 <itemizedlist>
 
+  <listitem><para><command>nix-env</command> selectors are now regular
+  expressions. For instance, you can do
+
+<screen>
+$ nix-env -qa '.*zip.*'
+</screen>
+
+  to query all packages with a name containing
+  <literal>zip</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
   <listitem><para>Derivations can specify the new special attribute
   <varname>allowedRequisites</varname>, which has a similar meaning to
   <varname>allowedReferences</varname>. But instead of only enforcing
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