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authorJohn Ericson <Ericson2314@Yahoo.com>2017-01-22 14:36:16 -0500
committerJohn Ericson <Ericson2314@Yahoo.com>2017-01-24 11:37:56 -0500
commit7dc4e43837a83d1b938b7eba0541b32f4e9bce72 (patch)
treeb1257f92b869200e26832131bb3037d0e6885960 /nixos/doc
parentbfb147b6a8c4a3ddc581aab0b8a29b418db3b7a6 (diff)
nixos doc: Mention cross overhaul in 17.03 release notes
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-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml9
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml
index 6be2cd3af7f8..aa864b7a757a 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1703.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ following incompatible changes:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
+ Cross compilation has been rewritten. See the nixpkgs manual for
+ details. The most obvious breaking change is that derivations absent a
+ <literal>.nativeDrv</literal> or <literal>.crossDrv</literal> are now
+ cross by default, not native.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
<literal>stdenv.overrides</literal> is now expected to take <literal>self</literal>
and <literal>super</literal> arguments. See <literal>lib.trivial.extends</literal>
for what those parameters represent.