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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
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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 6be2cd3af7f..aa864b7a757 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.