nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-unstable.xml
aszlig e6591588a9
releaso-notes: Document changes from #7349.
Thanks to @domenkozar for implicitly reminding me that documentation is
probably our biggest issue. And I'm a dumbass for contributing to that
situation, so let's do better than that and document it.

The current changes are only preparation for a bigger change coming real
soon[TM] in Hydra and release-tools, so right now it's still a bit
tedious to create custom channels.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2015-04-15 21:48:16 +02:00

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<chapter 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="sec-release-unstable">
<title>Unstable revision</title>
<para>In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights:
<!--<itemizedlist>
</itemizedlist>-->
</para>
<para>Following new services were added since the last release:
<!--<itemizedlist>
</itemizedlist>-->
</para>
<para>When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the
following incompatible changes:
<itemizedlist>
<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>
The default <literal>NIX_PATH</literal> for NixOS now includes
<literal>/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels</literal>, so it's
easy to add custom channels.
</para>
<para>
Moreover, whenever a <command>nixos-rebuild &lt;action&gt;
--upgrade</command> is issued, every channel that includes a file
called <filename>.update-on-nixos-rebuild</filename> will be upgraded
alongside of the <literal>nixos</literal> channel.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</chapter>