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nix-dev posting</link>.</para>
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nix-dev posting</link>.</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>Multiple output support should now be usable. A derivation
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can declare that it wants to produce multiple store paths by
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saying something like
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<programlisting>
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outputs = [ "lib" "headers" "doc" ];
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</programlisting>
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This will cause Nix to pass the intended store path of each output
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to the builder through the environment variables
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<literal>lib</literal>, <literal>headers</literal> and
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<literal>doc</literal>. Other packages can refer to a specific
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output by referring to
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<literal><replaceable>pkg</replaceable>.<replaceable>output</replaceable></literal>,
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e.g.
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<programlisting>
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buildInputs = [ pkg.lib pkg.headers ];
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</programlisting>
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If you install a package with multiple outputs using
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<command>nix-env</command>, each output path will be symlinked
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into the user environment.</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>Dashes are now valid as part of identifiers and attribute
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<para>Dashes are now valid as part of identifiers and attribute
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names.</para>
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names.</para>
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modifications.</para>
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modifications.</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>Store optimisation (replacing identical files in the store
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with hard links) can now be done automatically every time a path
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is added to the store. This is enabled by setting the
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configuration option <literal>auto-optimise-store</literal> to
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<literal>true</literal> (disabled by default).</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>Nix now supports <command>xz</command> compression for NARs
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in addition to <command>bzip2</command>. It compresses about 30%
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better on typical archives and decompresses about twice as
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fast.</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>Basic Nix expression evaluation profiling: setting the
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environment variable <envar>NIX_COUNT_CALLS</envar> to
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<literal>1</literal> will cause Nix to print how many times each
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primop or function was executed.</para>
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<para>New primops: <varname>concatLists</varname>,
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<varname>elem</varname>, <varname>elemAt</varname> and
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<varname>filter</varname>.</para>
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<para>The command <command>nix-copy-closure</command> has a new
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<para>The command <command>nix-copy-closure</command> has a new
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flag <option>--use-substitutes</option> (<option>-s</option>) to
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flag <option>--use-substitutes</option> (<option>-s</option>) to
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worker in “slave” mode has been removed.</para>
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worker in “slave” mode has been removed.</para>
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<para>The <option>--help</option> flag of every Nix command now
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invokes <command>man</command>.</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>Chroot builds are now supported on systemd machines.</para>
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<para>This release has contributions from Eelco Dolstra, Florian
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Friesdorf, Mats Erik Andersson and Shea Levy.</para>
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</section>
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