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Adam Joseph
1b97f3872e !fixup: transposed characters 2022-08-04 14:22:14 -07:00
Adam Joseph
62674659ed !fixup capitalize Nix 2022-08-04 14:21:17 -07:00
Adam Joseph
8f44d24c52 !fixup whitespace 2022-08-04 14:19:25 -07:00
Adam Joseph
56d4fc194b fourth trust condition: FODs 2022-08-04 14:14:24 -07:00
Adam Joseph
a5be5e0120 doc/manual: define {local,remote} store, binary cache, substituter
Nix veterans intuitively know what the following terms mean.  They are
used in several places in the nix documentation, but never defined:

- local store
- remote store
- binary cache
- substituter

In particular, I found the last two terms to be confusingly similar.
Let's give definitions for them.
2022-08-04 14:07:06 -07:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
81e101345f
Merge pull request #6420 from nix-community/doc-what-is-nix
Document what Nix *is*
2022-08-04 20:49:01 +02:00
John Ericson
39d32ac4c6 Add disclaimer that arch section is WIP and links may rot
So we can iterate without worrying so much.
2022-08-04 14:02:58 -04:00
John Ericson
6f6498f59c Remove header fragments which is not needd 2022-08-04 14:02:38 -04:00
John Ericson
016d7a8f78 Fix rosetta stone file name 2022-08-04 14:02:19 -04:00
John Ericson
b430a6743c Remove sections within from SUMMARY 2022-08-04 14:01:55 -04:00
John Ericson
b74a3f51c2 Fix gitignore 2022-08-04 14:01:27 -04:00
Andrei Boar
1c2c1a6e00
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md
Co-authored-by: Jan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>
2022-08-04 16:17:24 +03:00
John Ericson
bc118854d0 Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into doc-what-is-nix 2022-08-04 09:11:42 -04:00
Andrei Boar
a8ac6a4120
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-04 16:01:02 +03:00
Andrei Boar
cedcfe861c Merge branch 'manual-nix-path-empty' of github.com:zuzuleinen/nix into manual-nix-path-empty 2022-08-04 15:56:13 +03:00
Andrei Boar
f72545e864 update to suggested changes 2022-08-04 15:56:01 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
b631742277 fix page rendering
apparently it is not possible to link to page anchors with `mdBook`[1]

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/167
2022-08-04 14:31:33 +02:00
Domen Kožar
7d1280bbaf
Merge pull request #6678 from abathur/update_darwin_uninstall
doc: update darwin uninstall instructions
2022-08-04 14:09:09 +02:00
Andrei Boar
6dfd8a78d9
Update doc/manual/src/command-ref/env-common.md
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
2022-08-04 15:04:52 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
cc3a5f4ba2 use correct mdBook syntax for callouts 2022-08-04 14:04:14 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
8cec32e7f5 fix directory tree renderings 2022-08-04 13:51:35 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6fa2e8cb6f
Merge pull request #6805 from jfly/jfly/fix-link-to-hacking-doc
Fix link to hacking doc
2022-08-04 13:35:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
c9b24f0c17
Merge pull request #6863 from fricklerhandwerk/remove-writing-expressions
manual: remove "Writing Nix Expressions" chapter
2022-08-04 13:25:34 +02:00
Domen Kožar
84a26882f8
Update doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-04 06:23:45 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
bc5907ff94
Merge pull request #6862 from erikarvstedt/fix-flake-update-doc
docs/flake-update: fix example
2022-08-04 13:23:45 +02:00
Domen Kožar
3c2de2da01
Update doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2022-08-04 06:23:36 -05:00
Andrei Boar
5a75aa8595 manual: update docs when NIX_PATH is empty 2022-08-04 14:19:51 +03:00
Valentin Gagarin
3df1ee2ba5 clarify what explicitly declaring certain dependencies means 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
b7309ce624 move architecture to the end 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
00a7eaed67 add file system object to table of contents 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
db6faf44a9 clarify what store objects can be
the store of course makes a distinction, but that is not relevant here
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0228eb8ae7 add Java example on manual dependency declaration 2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
29c062537d hashes: truncate -> reduce, mention SHA-256
the longer SHA-256 hashes are not truncated, but in fact processed.

Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
9cabba1fc3 mention hard links
Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:48 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
bac86231ad use "build plan" consistently 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
5a5a95696f note customized base32
Nix omits E O U T characters for some reason.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
de5dea45f7 use correct Nix entity
Nix itself does care a lot about what type of store object you have.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
fe4c0b8d75 fix typo
Co-authored-by: Thomas <twatson52@mac.com>
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
def80d5777 add subsections to table of contents 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c345345dee concept map: align hights
this has the weird but nice emergent property that terms at the same
height are roughly at the same level of abstraction.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a28d6878b2 concept map: put closure as it is in the chapter
this is not as compact any more, but it more closely resembles the
chapter structure, and clearly shows that the closure property is the
key idea on which most of Nix operates.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
475a332025 make concept map even more compact 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
d8b2f9f772 make concept map more compact
invert arrows to/from derivation:
- we need closures to form derivations
- we need derivations to perform builds
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
348432f48f store: add concept map
this should help nativate the chapter by indicating which terms should
be known to understand a given concept.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
ec43977553 store: match chapter introduction to outline
the various levels of detail should describe the same things.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
7c656d90ca simplify description of diagram
try not to be too fancy, it's just for reading the diagram out loud.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
631ca18ee6 reword notes on copying
clarify that we are copying between different stores. we have not
introduced that notion or why it would be interesting, but for now it
should be fine to keep it in context of the store directory.

we could move that later to a more detailed explanation of different
store types.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
c10dcccccd make example a simple list
using JSON notation is unwarranted and not explained.
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
9c544813d7 paths -> path
use singular for terminology uniformly
2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
1681f4e9f3 better explain reference scanning 2022-08-04 12:37:47 +02:00