From 68fa960f6a79bb60d0ab0a700c443117382a95e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Kowalewski Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:44:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] nixos/release-notes: add comment about generic mpi attribute --- nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml index 94e42369b60..cabc60a157a 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml @@ -418,6 +418,26 @@ http://some.json-exporter.host:7979/probe?target=https://example.com/some/json/e SDK licenses if your project requires it. See the androidenv documentation for more details. + + + The attribute mpi is now consistently used to + provide a default, system-wide MPI implementation. + The default implementation is openmpi, which has been used before by + all derivations affects by this change. + Note that all packages that have used mpi ? null in the input + for optional MPI builds, have been changed to the boolean input paramater + useMpi to enable building with MPI. + + Building all packages with mpich instead + of the default openmpi can now be achived like this: + +self: super: +{ + mpi = super.mpich; +} + + + The Searx module has been updated with the ability to configure the