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Eelco Dolstra 2005-03-14 18:56:02 +00:00
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@ -7,6 +7,27 @@ changed, so you can still build from source. Also, existing user
environments continue to work. Nix 0.8 will automatically upgrade the
database schema of previous installations when it is first run.
If you get the error message
you have an old-style manifest `/nix/var/nix/manifests/[...]';
please delete it
you should delete previously downloaded manifests:
$ rm /nix/var/nix/manifests/*
If `nix-channel' gives the error message
manifest `http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels/[channel]/MANIFEST'
is too old (i.e., for Nix <= 0.7)
then you should unsubscribe from the offending channel (`nix-channel
--remove URL'; leave out `/MANIFEST'), and subscribe to the same URL,
with `channels' replaced by `channels-v3' (e.g.,
http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable).
Nix 0.8 has the following improvements:
* The cryptographic hashes used in store paths are now 160 bits long,
but encoded in base-32 so that they are still only 32 characters
long (e.g., /nix/store/csw87wag8bqlqk7ipllbwypb14xainap-atk-1.9.0).