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<appendix><title>Bugs / To-Do</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The man-pages generated from the DocBook documentation are ugly.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Generations properly form a tree. E.g., if after switching to
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generation 39, we perform an installation action, a generation
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43 is created which is a descendant of 39, not 42. So a
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rollback from 43 ought to go back to 39. This is not
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currently implemented; generations form a linear sequence.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<emphasis>Build management.</emphasis> In principle it is already
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possible to do build management using Nix (by writing builders that
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perform appropriate build steps), but the Nix expression language is
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not yet powerful enough to make this pleasant (?). The language should
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be extended with features from the <ulink
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url='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/maak/'>Maak build manager</ulink>.
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Another interesting idea is to write a <command>make</command>
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implementation that uses Nix as a back-end to support <ulink
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url='http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#legacy'>legacy</ulink>
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build files.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>For security, <command>nix-push</command> manifests
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should be digitally signed, and <command>nix-pull</command> should
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verify the signatures. The actual NAR archives in the cache do not
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need to be signed, since the manifest contains cryptographic hashes of
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these files (and <filename>fetchurl.nix</filename> checks
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them).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>It would be useful to have an option in
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<command>nix-env --delete-generations</command> to remove non-current
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generations older than a certain age.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</appendix>
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