Remove manifest support

Manifests have been superseded by binary caches for years. This also
gets rid of nix-pull, nix-generate-patches and bsdiff/bspatch.
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Eelco Dolstra 2016-04-11 14:16:56 +02:00
parent af4fb6ef61
commit 867967265b
37 changed files with 20 additions and 2143 deletions

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@ -435,18 +435,6 @@ flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>force-manifest</literal></term>
<listitem><para>If this option is set to <literal>false</literal>
(default) and a Nix channel provides both a manifest and a binary
cache, only the binary cache will be used. If set to
<literal>true</literal>, the manifest will be fetched as well.
This is useful if you want to use binary patches (which are
currently not supported by binary caches).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>system</literal></term>
<listitem><para>This option specifies the canonical Nix system