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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="sec-release-15.09">
+ <title>Release 15.09 (“Dingo”, 2015/09/30)</title>
-<title>Release 15.09 (“Dingo”, 2015/09/30)</title>
-
-<para>In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release
-has the following highlights:</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the
+ following highlights:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>The <link xlink:href="http://haskell.org/">Haskell</link>
- packages infrastructure has been re-designed from the ground up
- (&quot;Haskell NG&quot;). NixOS now distributes the latest version
- of every single package registered on <link
- xlink:href="http://hackage.haskell.org/">Hackage</link> -- well in
- excess of 8,000 Haskell packages. Detailed instructions on how to
- use that infrastructure can be found in the <link
+ <para>
+ The <link xlink:href="http://haskell.org/">Haskell</link> packages
+ infrastructure has been re-designed from the ground up (&quot;Haskell
+ NG&quot;). NixOS now distributes the latest version of every single package
+ registered on
+ <link
+ xlink:href="http://hackage.haskell.org/">Hackage</link> -- well
+ in excess of 8,000 Haskell packages. Detailed instructions on how to use
+ that infrastructure can be found in the
+ <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#users-guide-to-the-haskell-infrastructure">User's
- Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure</link>. Users migrating from an
- earlier release may find helpful information below, in the list of
- backwards-incompatible changes. Furthermore, we distribute 51(!)
- additional Haskell package sets that provide every single <link
+ Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure</link>. Users migrating from an earlier
+ release may find helpful information below, in the list of
+ backwards-incompatible changes. Furthermore, we distribute 51(!) additional
+ Haskell package sets that provide every single
+ <link
xlink:href="http://www.stackage.org/">LTS Haskell</link> release
- since version 0.0 as well as the most recent <link
+ since version 0.0 as well as the most recent
+ <link
xlink:href="http://www.stackage.org/">Stackage Nightly</link>
- snapshot. The announcement <link
+ snapshot. The announcement
+ <link
xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix-dev/2015-September/018138.html">&quot;Full
- Stackage Support in Nixpkgs&quot;</link> gives additional
- details.</para>
+ Stackage Support in Nixpkgs&quot;</link> gives additional details.
+ </para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
- <para>Nix has been updated to version 1.10, which among other
- improvements enables cryptographic signatures on binary caches for
- improved security.</para>
+ <para>
+ Nix has been updated to version 1.10, which among other improvements
+ enables cryptographic signatures on binary caches for improved security.
+ </para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
- <para>You can now keep your NixOS system up to date automatically
- by setting
-
+ <para>
+ You can now keep your NixOS system up to date automatically by setting
<programlisting>
system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;
</programlisting>
-
- This will cause the system to periodically check for updates in
- your current channel and run <command>nixos-rebuild</command>.</para>
+ This will cause the system to periodically check for updates in your
+ current channel and run <command>nixos-rebuild</command>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
- <para>This release is based on Glibc 2.21, GCC 4.9 and Linux
- 3.18.</para>
+ <para>
+ This release is based on Glibc 2.21, GCC 4.9 and Linux 3.18.
+ </para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
- <para>GNOME has been upgraded to 3.16.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ GNOME has been upgraded to 3.16.
+ </para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
- <para>Xfce has been upgraded to 4.12.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ Xfce has been upgraded to 4.12.
+ </para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
- <para>KDE 5 has been upgraded to KDE Frameworks 5.10,
- Plasma 5.3.2 and Applications 15.04.3.
- KDE 4 has been updated to kdelibs-4.14.10.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ KDE 5 has been upgraded to KDE Frameworks 5.10, Plasma 5.3.2 and
+ Applications 15.04.3. KDE 4 has been updated to kdelibs-4.14.10.
+ </para>
</listitem>
-
<listitem>
- <para>E19 has been upgraded to 0.16.8.15.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ E19 has been upgraded to 0.16.8.15.
+ </para>
</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-
-<para>The following new services were added since the last release:
-
+ <para>
+ The following new services were added since the last release:
<itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/mail/exim.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/apache-kafka.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/canto-daemon.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/confd.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/devmon.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/gitit.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/ihaskell.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/mbpfan.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/mediatomb.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/mwlib.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/parsoid.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/plex.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/ripple-rest.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/ripple-data-api.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/subsonic.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/misc/sundtek.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/monitoring/cadvisor.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/monitoring/das_watchdog.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/monitoring/grafana.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/monitoring/riemann-tools.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/monitoring/teamviewer.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/network-filesystems/u9fs.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/aiccu.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/asterisk.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/bird.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/charybdis.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/docker-registry-server.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/fan.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/firefox/sync-server.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/gateone.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/heyefi.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/i2p.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/lambdabot.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/mstpd.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/nix-serve.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/nylon.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/racoon.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/skydns.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/shout.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/softether.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/sslh.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/tinc.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/tlsdated.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/tox-bootstrapd.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/tvheadend.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/networking/zerotierone.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/scheduling/marathon.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/security/fprintd.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/security/hologram.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/security/munge.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/system/cloud-init.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/web-servers/shellinabox.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/web-servers/uwsgi.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/x11/unclutter.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>services/x11/display-managers/sddm.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>system/boot/coredump.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>system/boot/loader/loader.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>system/boot/loader/generic-extlinux-compatible</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>system/boot/networkd.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>system/boot/resolved.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>system/boot/timesyncd.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>tasks/filesystems/exfat.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>tasks/filesystems/ntfs.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>tasks/filesystems/vboxsf.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>virtualisation/virtualbox-host.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>virtualisation/vmware-guest.nix</literal></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><literal>virtualisation/xen-dom0.nix</literal></para></listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/mail/exim.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/apache-kafka.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/canto-daemon.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/confd.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/devmon.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/gitit.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/ihaskell.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/mbpfan.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/mediatomb.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/mwlib.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/parsoid.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/plex.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/ripple-rest.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/ripple-data-api.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/subsonic.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/misc/sundtek.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/monitoring/cadvisor.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/monitoring/das_watchdog.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/monitoring/grafana.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/monitoring/riemann-tools.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/monitoring/teamviewer.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/network-filesystems/u9fs.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/aiccu.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/asterisk.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/bird.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/charybdis.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/docker-registry-server.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/fan.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/firefox/sync-server.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/gateone.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/heyefi.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/i2p.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/lambdabot.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/mstpd.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/nix-serve.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/nylon.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/racoon.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/skydns.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/shout.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/softether.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/sslh.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/tinc.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/tlsdated.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/tox-bootstrapd.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/tvheadend.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/networking/zerotierone.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/scheduling/marathon.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/security/fprintd.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/security/hologram.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/security/munge.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/system/cloud-init.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/web-servers/shellinabox.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/web-servers/uwsgi.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/x11/unclutter.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>services/x11/display-managers/sddm.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>system/boot/coredump.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>system/boot/loader/loader.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>system/boot/loader/generic-extlinux-compatible</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>system/boot/networkd.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>system/boot/resolved.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>system/boot/timesyncd.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>tasks/filesystems/exfat.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>tasks/filesystems/ntfs.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>tasks/filesystems/vboxsf.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>virtualisation/virtualbox-host.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>virtualisation/vmware-guest.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>virtualisation/xen-dom0.nix</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</para>
-
-
-<para>When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
-following incompatible changes:
-
-<itemizedlist>
-
-<listitem><para><command>sshd</command> no longer supports DSA and ECDSA
-host keys by default. If you have existing systems with such host keys
-and want to continue to use them, please set
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following
+ incompatible changes:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>sshd</command> no longer supports DSA and ECDSA host keys by
+ default. If you have existing systems with such host keys and want to
+ continue to use them, please set
<programlisting>
system.stateVersion = "14.12";
</programlisting>
-
-The new option <option>system.stateVersion</option> ensures that
-certain configuration changes that could break existing systems (such
-as the <command>sshd</command> host key setting) will maintain
-compatibility with the specified NixOS release. NixOps sets the state
-version of existing deployments automatically.</para></listitem>
-
-<listitem><para><command>cron</command> is no longer enabled by
-default, unless you have a non-empty
-<option>services.cron.systemCronJobs</option>. To force
-<command>cron</command> to be enabled, set
-<option>services.cron.enable = true</option>.</para></listitem>
-
-<listitem><para>Nix now requires binary caches to be cryptographically
-signed. If you have unsigned binary caches that you want to continue
-to use, you should set <option>nix.requireSignedBinaryCaches =
-false</option>.</para></listitem>
-
-<listitem><para>Steam now doesn't need root rights to work. Instead of using
-<literal>*-steam-chrootenv</literal>, you should now just run <literal>steam</literal>.
-<literal>steamChrootEnv</literal> package was renamed to <literal>steam</literal>,
-and old <literal>steam</literal> package -- to <literal>steamOriginal</literal>.
-</para></listitem>
-
-<listitem><para>CMPlayer has been renamed to bomi upstream. Package
-<literal>cmplayer</literal> was accordingly renamed to
-<literal>bomi</literal> </para></listitem>
-
-<listitem><para>Atom Shell has been renamed to Electron upstream. Package <literal>atom-shell</literal>
-was accordingly renamed to <literal>electron</literal>
-</para></listitem>
-
-<listitem><para>Elm is not released on Hackage anymore. You should now use <literal>elmPackages.elm</literal>
-which contains the latest Elm platform.</para></listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>The CUPS printing service has been updated to version
- <literal>2.0.2</literal>. Furthermore its systemd service has been
- renamed to <literal>cups.service</literal>.</para>
-
- <para>Local printers are no longer shared or advertised by
- default. This behavior can be changed by enabling
- <option>services.printing.defaultShared</option> or
- <option>services.printing.browsing</option> respectively.</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- The VirtualBox host and guest options have been named more
- consistently. They can now found in
- <option>virtualisation.virtualbox.host.*</option> instead of
- <option>services.virtualboxHost.*</option> and
- <option>virtualisation.virtualbox.guest.*</option> instead of
- <option>services.virtualboxGuest.*</option>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Also, there now is support for the <literal>vboxsf</literal> file
- system using the <option>fileSystems</option> configuration
- attribute. An example of how this can be used in a configuration:
-
+ The new option <option>system.stateVersion</option> ensures that certain
+ configuration changes that could break existing systems (such as the
+ <command>sshd</command> host key setting) will maintain compatibility with
+ the specified NixOS release. NixOps sets the state version of existing
+ deployments automatically.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>cron</command> is no longer enabled by default, unless you have a
+ non-empty <option>services.cron.systemCronJobs</option>. To force
+ <command>cron</command> to be enabled, set <option>services.cron.enable =
+ true</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Nix now requires binary caches to be cryptographically signed. If you have
+ unsigned binary caches that you want to continue to use, you should set
+ <option>nix.requireSignedBinaryCaches = false</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Steam now doesn't need root rights to work. Instead of using
+ <literal>*-steam-chrootenv</literal>, you should now just run
+ <literal>steam</literal>. <literal>steamChrootEnv</literal> package was
+ renamed to <literal>steam</literal>, and old <literal>steam</literal>
+ package -- to <literal>steamOriginal</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ CMPlayer has been renamed to bomi upstream. Package
+ <literal>cmplayer</literal> was accordingly renamed to
+ <literal>bomi</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Atom Shell has been renamed to Electron upstream. Package
+ <literal>atom-shell</literal> was accordingly renamed to
+ <literal>electron</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Elm is not released on Hackage anymore. You should now use
+ <literal>elmPackages.elm</literal> which contains the latest Elm platform.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The CUPS printing service has been updated to version
+ <literal>2.0.2</literal>. Furthermore its systemd service has been renamed
+ to <literal>cups.service</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Local printers are no longer shared or advertised by default. This
+ behavior can be changed by enabling
+ <option>services.printing.defaultShared</option> or
+ <option>services.printing.browsing</option> respectively.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The VirtualBox host and guest options have been named more consistently.
+ They can now found in <option>virtualisation.virtualbox.host.*</option>
+ instead of <option>services.virtualboxHost.*</option> and
+ <option>virtualisation.virtualbox.guest.*</option> instead of
+ <option>services.virtualboxGuest.*</option>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Also, there now is support for the <literal>vboxsf</literal> file system
+ using the <option>fileSystems</option> configuration attribute. An example
+ of how this can be used in a configuration:
<programlisting>
fileSystems."/shiny" = {
device = "myshinysharedfolder";
fsType = "vboxsf";
};
</programlisting>
-
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- &quot;<literal>nix-env -qa</literal>&quot; no longer discovers
- Haskell packages by name. The only packages visible in the global
- scope are <literal>ghc</literal>, <literal>cabal-install</literal>,
- and <literal>stack</literal>, but all other packages are hidden. The
- reason for this inconvenience is the sheer size of the Haskell
- package set. Name-based lookups are expensive, and most
- <literal>nix-env -qa</literal> operations would become much slower
- if we'd add the entire Hackage database into the top level attribute
- set. Instead, the list of Haskell packages can be displayed by
- running:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ &quot;<literal>nix-env -qa</literal>&quot; no longer discovers Haskell
+ packages by name. The only packages visible in the global scope are
+ <literal>ghc</literal>, <literal>cabal-install</literal>, and
+ <literal>stack</literal>, but all other packages are hidden. The reason
+ for this inconvenience is the sheer size of the Haskell package set.
+ Name-based lookups are expensive, and most <literal>nix-env -qa</literal>
+ operations would become much slower if we'd add the entire Hackage
+ database into the top level attribute set. Instead, the list of Haskell
+ packages can be displayed by running:
+ </para>
+<programlisting>
nix-env -f &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&gt;&quot; -qaP -A haskellPackages
</programlisting>
- <para>
- Executable programs written in Haskell can be installed with:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
+ <para>
+ Executable programs written in Haskell can be installed with:
+ </para>
+<programlisting>
nix-env -f &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&gt;&quot; -iA haskellPackages.pandoc
</programlisting>
- <para>
- Installing Haskell <emphasis>libraries</emphasis> this way, however, is no
- longer supported. See the next item for more details.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- Previous versions of NixOS came with a feature called
- <literal>ghc-wrapper</literal>, a small script that allowed GHC to
- transparently pick up on libraries installed in the user's profile. This
- feature has been deprecated; <literal>ghc-wrapper</literal> was removed
- from the distribution. The proper way to register Haskell libraries with
- the compiler now is the <literal>haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages</literal>
- function. The <link
+ <para>
+ Installing Haskell <emphasis>libraries</emphasis> this way, however, is no
+ longer supported. See the next item for more details.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Previous versions of NixOS came with a feature called
+ <literal>ghc-wrapper</literal>, a small script that allowed GHC to
+ transparently pick up on libraries installed in the user's profile. This
+ feature has been deprecated; <literal>ghc-wrapper</literal> was removed
+ from the distribution. The proper way to register Haskell libraries with
+ the compiler now is the <literal>haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages</literal>
+ function. The
+ <link
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#users-guide-to-the-haskell-infrastructure">User's
- Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure</link> provides more information about
- this subject.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- All Haskell builds that have been generated with version 1.x of
- the <literal>cabal2nix</literal> utility are now invalid and need
- to be re-generated with a current version of
- <literal>cabal2nix</literal> to function. The most recent version
- of this tool can be installed by running
- <literal>nix-env -i cabal2nix</literal>.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- The <literal>haskellPackages</literal> set in Nixpkgs used to have a
- function attribute called <literal>extension</literal> that users
- could override in their <literal>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</literal>
- files to configure additional attributes, etc. That function still
- exists, but it's now called <literal>overrides</literal>.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- The OpenBLAS library has been updated to version
- <literal>0.2.14</literal>. Support for the
- <literal>x86_64-darwin</literal> platform was added. Dynamic
- architecture detection was enabled; OpenBLAS now selects
- microarchitecture-optimized routines at runtime, so optimal
- performance is achieved without the need to rebuild OpenBLAS
- locally. OpenBLAS has replaced ATLAS in most packages which use an
- optimized BLAS or LAPACK implementation.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- The <literal>phpfpm</literal> is now using the default PHP version
- (<literal>pkgs.php</literal>) instead of PHP 5.4 (<literal>pkgs.php54</literal>).
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- The <literal>locate</literal> service no longer indexes the Nix store
- by default, preventing packages with potentially numerous versions from
- cluttering the output. Indexing the store can be activated by setting
- <option>services.locate.includeStore = true</option>.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- The Nix expression search path (<envar>NIX_PATH</envar>) no longer
- contains <filename>/etc/nixos/nixpkgs</filename> by default. You
- can override <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> by setting
- <option>nix.nixPath</option>.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- Python 2.6 has been marked as broken (as it no longer receives
- security updates from upstream).
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- Any use of module arguments such as <varname>pkgs</varname> to access
- library functions, or to define <literal>imports</literal> attributes
- will now lead to an infinite loop at the time of the evaluation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- In case of an infinite loop, use the <command>--show-trace</command>
- command line argument and read the line just above the error message.
-
+ Guide to the Haskell Infrastructure</link> provides more information about
+ this subject.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ All Haskell builds that have been generated with version 1.x of the
+ <literal>cabal2nix</literal> utility are now invalid and need to be
+ re-generated with a current version of <literal>cabal2nix</literal> to
+ function. The most recent version of this tool can be installed by running
+ <literal>nix-env -i cabal2nix</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <literal>haskellPackages</literal> set in Nixpkgs used to have a
+ function attribute called <literal>extension</literal> that users could
+ override in their <literal>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</literal> files to
+ configure additional attributes, etc. That function still exists, but it's
+ now called <literal>overrides</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The OpenBLAS library has been updated to version
+ <literal>0.2.14</literal>. Support for the
+ <literal>x86_64-darwin</literal> platform was added. Dynamic architecture
+ detection was enabled; OpenBLAS now selects microarchitecture-optimized
+ routines at runtime, so optimal performance is achieved without the need
+ to rebuild OpenBLAS locally. OpenBLAS has replaced ATLAS in most packages
+ which use an optimized BLAS or LAPACK implementation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <literal>phpfpm</literal> is now using the default PHP version
+ (<literal>pkgs.php</literal>) instead of PHP 5.4
+ (<literal>pkgs.php54</literal>).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <literal>locate</literal> service no longer indexes the Nix store by
+ default, preventing packages with potentially numerous versions from
+ cluttering the output. Indexing the store can be activated by setting
+ <option>services.locate.includeStore = true</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The Nix expression search path (<envar>NIX_PATH</envar>) no longer
+ contains <filename>/etc/nixos/nixpkgs</filename> by default. You can
+ override <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> by setting <option>nix.nixPath</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Python 2.6 has been marked as broken (as it no longer receives security
+ updates from upstream).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Any use of module arguments such as <varname>pkgs</varname> to access
+ library functions, or to define <literal>imports</literal> attributes will
+ now lead to an infinite loop at the time of the evaluation.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In case of an infinite loop, use the <command>--show-trace</command>
+ command line argument and read the line just above the error message.
<screen>
$ nixos-rebuild build --show-trace
while evaluating the module argument `pkgs' in "/etc/nixos/my-module.nix":
infinite recursion encountered
</screen>
- </para>
-
-
- <para>
- Any use of <literal>pkgs.lib</literal>, should be replaced by
- <varname>lib</varname>, after adding it as argument of the module. The
- following module
-
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Any use of <literal>pkgs.lib</literal>, should be replaced by
+ <varname>lib</varname>, after adding it as argument of the module. The
+ following module
<programlisting>
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
@@ -384,9 +649,7 @@ with pkgs.lib;
config = mkIf config.foo { … };
}
</programlisting>
-
- should be modified to look like:
-
+ should be modified to look like:
<programlisting>
{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
@@ -399,13 +662,11 @@ with lib;
config = mkIf config.foo { <replaceable>option definition</replaceable> };
}
</programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- When <varname>pkgs</varname> is used to download other projects to
- import their modules, and only in such cases, it should be replaced by
- <literal>(import &lt;nixpkgs&gt; {})</literal>. The following module
-
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When <varname>pkgs</varname> is used to download other projects to import
+ their modules, and only in such cases, it should be replaced by
+ <literal>(import &lt;nixpkgs&gt; {})</literal>. The following module
<programlisting>
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
@@ -420,9 +681,7 @@ in
imports = [ "${myProject}/module.nix" ];
}
</programlisting>
-
- should be modified to look like:
-
+ should be modified to look like:
<programlisting>
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
@@ -437,55 +696,55 @@ in
imports = [ "${myProject}/module.nix" ];
}
</programlisting>
- </para>
-
-</listitem>
-
-</itemizedlist>
-</para>
-
-
-<para>Other notable improvements:
-
-<itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem><para>The nixos and nixpkgs channels were unified,
- so one <emphasis>can</emphasis> use <literal>nix-env -iA nixos.bash</literal>
- instead of <literal>nix-env -iA nixos.pkgs.bash</literal>.
- See <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/2cd7c1f198">the commit</link> for details.
- </para></listitem>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
- <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Other notable improvements:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- Users running an SSH server who worry about the quality of their
- <literal>/etc/ssh/moduli</literal> file with respect to the
- <link
+ The nixos and nixpkgs channels were unified, so one
+ <emphasis>can</emphasis> use <literal>nix-env -iA nixos.bash</literal>
+ instead of <literal>nix-env -iA nixos.pkgs.bash</literal>. See
+ <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/2cd7c1f198">the
+ commit</link> for details.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Users running an SSH server who worry about the quality of their
+ <literal>/etc/ssh/moduli</literal> file with respect to the
+ <link
xlink:href="https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html">vulnerabilities
- discovered in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange</link> can now
- replace OpenSSH's default version with one they generated
- themselves using the new
- <option>services.openssh.moduliFile</option> option.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem> <para>
- A newly packaged TeX Live 2015 is provided in <literal>pkgs.texlive</literal>,
- split into 6500 nix packages. For basic user documentation see
- <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/release-15.09/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix#L1"
- >the source</link>.
- Beware of <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9757"
- >an issue</link> when installing a too large package set.
-
- The plan is to deprecate and maybe delete the original TeX packages
- until the next release.
- </para> </listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <option>buildEnv.env</option> on all Python interpreters
- is now available for nix-shell interoperability.
- </para> </listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</para>
-
+ discovered in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange</link> can now replace
+ OpenSSH's default version with one they generated themselves using the new
+ <option>services.openssh.moduliFile</option> option.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A newly packaged TeX Live 2015 is provided in
+ <literal>pkgs.texlive</literal>, split into 6500 nix packages. For basic
+ user documentation see
+ <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/release-15.09/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix#L1"
+ >the
+ source</link>. Beware of
+ <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/9757"
+ >an
+ issue</link> when installing a too large package set. The plan is to
+ deprecate and maybe delete the original TeX packages until the next
+ release.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <option>buildEnv.env</option> on all Python interpreters is now available
+ for nix-shell interoperability.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
</section>