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author | Markus Kowalewski <markus.kowalewski@gmail.com> | 2021-01-10 22:44:04 +0100 |
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committer | Markus Kowalewski <markus.kowalewski@gmail.com> | 2021-01-23 12:15:18 +0100 |
commit | 68fa960f6a79bb60d0ab0a700c443117382a95e2 (patch) | |
tree | 30fc33f81e308419a5dac6a55b68a74d291abfbb /nixos/doc | |
parent | b6a09f88874ea6ca3c8792b3e867e5d3071594bd (diff) |
nixos/release-notes: add comment about generic mpi attribute
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-rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml index 94e42369b605..cabc60a157ac 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml @@ -420,6 +420,26 @@ http://some.json-exporter.host:7979/probe?target=https://example.com/some/json/e </listitem> <listitem> <para> + The attribute <varname>mpi</varname> is now consistently used to + provide a default, system-wide MPI implementation. + The default implementation is openmpi, which has been used before by + all derivations affects by this change. + Note that all packages that have used <varname>mpi ? null</varname> in the input + for optional MPI builds, have been changed to the boolean input paramater + <varname>useMpi</varname> to enable building with MPI. + + Building all packages with <varname>mpich</varname> instead + of the default <varname>openmpi</varname> can now be achived like this: + <programlisting> +self: super: +{ + mpi = super.mpich; +} + </programlisting> + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> The Searx module has been updated with the ability to configure the service declaratively and uWSGI integration. The option <literal>services.searx.configFile</literal> has been renamed |