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authoraszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>2016-09-13 06:34:33 +0200
committeraszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>2016-09-13 06:34:33 +0200
commit4a44eca07d5da2adc162b727a2ca0683aa29c45d (patch)
tree407dfdee6d17302931f07c387649797b2a5dc0a7 /nixos/doc
parentd2af4c67228a28b3df3016ca216f48f6d139a62e (diff)
nixos/release-notes: Add VirtualBox changes
The change is backwards-compatible for users of the NixOS module but not
if people were using the package directly, so let's warn users about
that.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/doc')
-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml
index 70759ee25f863..792b4458caaa4 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml
@@ -90,6 +90,15 @@ following incompatible changes:</para>
     Use <literal>security.audit.enable = true;</literal> to explicitly enable it.</para>
   </listitem>
 
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      <literal>pkgs.linuxPackages.virtualbox</literal> now contains only the
+      kernel modules instead of the VirtualBox user space binaries.
+      If you want to reference the user space binaries, you have to use the new
+      <literal>pkgs.virtualbox</literal> instead.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>