Nixpkgs Release Notes
Release 0.9 (January 31, 2006)
There have been zillions of changes since the last release of
Nixpkgs. Among the more notable are:
Distribution files have been moved to ).
Release 0.8 (April 11, 2005)
This release is mostly to remain synchronised with the changed
hashing scheme in Nix 0.8.
Notable updates:
Adobe Reader 7.0
Various security updates (zlib 1.2.2, etc.)
Release 0.7 (March 14, 2005)
The bootstrap process for the standard build
environment on Linux (stdenv-linux) has been improved. It is no
longer dependent in its initial bootstrap stages on the system
Glibc, GCC, and other tools. Rather, Nixpkgs contains a statically
linked bash and curl, and uses that to download other statically
linked tools. These are then used to build a Glibc and dynamically
linked versions of all other tools.
This change also makes the bootstrap process faster. For
instance, GCC is built only once instead of three times.
(Contributed by Armijn Hemel.)
Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server
that hosts Nixpkgs ().
This reduces the risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or
deleted files on various servers.
There now is a generic mechanism for building Perl modules.
See the various Perl modules defined in
pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix.
Notable new packages:
Qt 3
MySQL
MythTV
Mono
MonoDevelop (alpha)
Xine
Notable updates:
GCC 3.4.3
Glibc 2.3.4
GTK 2.6