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authorzimbatm <zimbatm@zimbatm.com>2015-11-21 20:55:10 +0000
committerRok Garbas <rok@garbas.si>2015-11-25 11:51:09 +0100
commite7cd9077a8fa0d3acd434e6de09902aabe3a3425 (patch)
tree95103572f82e3d6eaf892a2f447fdbed86f0146d /nixos
parentde02462a36cc58ca67226d4985bd3929e6024260 (diff)
s3sync: delete dead project
According to http://s3sync.net/wiki.html, https://github.com/ms4720/s3sync was
supposed to take over the development but nothing has happened in 4 years.

The project is unfortunately dead and is our only dependency to ruby 1.8.
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos')
-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-unstable.xml8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-unstable.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-unstable.xml
index 65aa36586cb02..f7564ddb5bbe8 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-unstable.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-unstable.xml
@@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ nginx.override {
     </para>
   </listitem>
 
+  <listitem>
+    <para><command>s3sync</command> is removed, as it hasn't been
+    developed by upstream for 4 years and only runs with ruby 1.8.
+    For an actively-developer alternative look at
+    <command>tarsnap</command> and others.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>
 
 </section>