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Manifests have been superseded by binary caches for years.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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@ -73,11 +73,10 @@ condition="manual">See also <xref linkend="sec-channels"
<listitem><para>Downloads the Nix expressions of all subscribed
channels (or only those included in
<replaceable>names</replaceable> if specified), makes them the
<replaceable>names</replaceable> if specified) and makes them the
default for <command>nix-env</command> operations (by symlinking
them from the directory <filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>), and
performs a <command>nix-pull</command> on the manifests of all
channels to make pre-built binaries available.</para></listitem>
them from the directory
<filename>~/.nix-defexpr</filename>).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@ -187,16 +186,6 @@ following files:</para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><filename>MANIFEST.bz2</filename></term>
<listitem><para>(Deprecated in favour of binary caches.) A
manifest as created by <command>nix-push</command>. Only used if
<filename>binary-cache-url</filename> is not present or if the
<filename>nix.conf</filename> option
<option>force-manifest</option> is set.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>