* Updated some URLs (did this a long time ago but forgot to

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@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ build farm, since:
<para>TODO</para>
<para>The sources of the Nix build farm are at <link
xlink:href='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk'/>.</para>
xlink:href='https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/release/trunk'/>.</para>
</section>
@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ nix@scratchy.labs.cs.uu.nl i686-linux /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto
<para>An example build hook can be found in the Nix build farm
sources: <link
xlink:href='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk/common/distributed/build-remote.pl'
xlink:href='https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/release/trunk/common/distributed/build-remote.pl'
/>. It should be suitable for most purposes, with maybe some minor
adjustments. It uses <command>ssh</command> and
<command>rsync</command> to copy the build inputs and outputs and

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@ -42,25 +42,22 @@ platforms as well.</para>
<section><title>Obtaining Nix</title>
<para>The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/">source distribution</link>. RPMs
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">source distribution</link>. RPMs
for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core are also available.</para>
<para>Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained
from its <link
xlink:href="https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/trunk">Subversion
xlink:href="https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/trunk">Subversion
repository</link>. For example, the following command will check out
the latest revision into a directory called
<filename>nix</filename>:</para>
<screen>
$ svn checkout https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/trunk nix</screen>
$ svn checkout https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/trunk nix</screen>
<para>Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the <link
xlink:href="https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/nix/tags">tags
directory</link> of the repository. If you don't have Subversion, you
can also download an automatically generated <link
xlink:href="https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/">compressed
tar-file</link> of the head revision of the trunk.</para>
xlink:href="https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/tags">tags
directory</link> of the repository.</para>
</section>
@ -161,7 +158,7 @@ options.</para>
<section><title>Installing from RPMs</title>
<para>RPM packages of Nix can be downloaded from <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/" />. These RPMs should work for most
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/" />. These RPMs should work for most
fairly recent releases of SuSE and Red Hat Linux. They have been
known to work work on SuSE Linux 8.1 and 9.0, and Red Hat 9.0. In
fact, it should work on any RPM-based Linux distribution based on
@ -193,12 +190,12 @@ $ rm -rf /nix/var</screen>
<para>You can install the latest stable version of Nix through Nix
itself by subscribing to the channel <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nix-stable" />,
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/channels/nix-stable" />,
or the latest unstable version by subscribing to the channel <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nix-unstable" />.
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/channels/nix-unstable" />.
You can also do a <link linkend="sec-one-click">one-click
installation</link> by clicking on the package links at <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/" />.</para>
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/full-index-nix.html" />.</para>
</section>

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@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ to end-user applications like Mozilla Firefox. (Nix is however not
tied to the Nix Package collection; you could write your own Nix
expressions based on it, or completely new ones.) You can download
the latest version from <link
xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix' />.</para>
xlink:href='http://nixos.org/releases/full-index-nixpkgs.html' />.</para>
<para>Assuming that you have downloaded and unpacked a release of Nix
Packages, you can view the set of available packages in the release:
@ -118,15 +118,15 @@ available somewhere. This is done using the
containing a <emphasis>manifest</emphasis> describing what binaries
are available. This URL should correspond to the Nix Packages release
that youre using. For instance, if you obtained a release from <link
xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/' />, then
you should do:
xlink:href='http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre11712-4lrp7j8x'
/>, then you should do:
<screen>
$ nix-pull http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.6pre1554/MANIFEST</screen>
$ nix-pull http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-0.12pre11712-4lrp7j8x/MANIFEST</screen>
If you then issue the installation command, it should start
downloading binaries from <systemitem
class='fqdomainname'>nix.cs.uu.nl</systemitem>, instead of building
class='fqdomainname'>nixos.org</systemitem>, instead of building
them from source. This might still take a while since all
dependencies must be downloaded, but on a reasonably fast connection
such as an DSL line its on the order of a few minutes.</para>
@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ URL.</para>
<command>nix-channel --add</command>, e.g.,
<screen>
$ nix-channel --add http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
subscribes you to a channel that always contains that latest version
of the Nix Packages collection. (Instead of
@ -496,20 +496,19 @@ available in the subscribed channels.</para>
<para>Often, when you want to install a specific package (e.g., from
the <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-unstable-latest/">Nix
Packages collection</link> or from our <link
xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/'>release server</link>),
subscribing to a channel is a bit cumbersome. And channels dont help
you at all if you want to install an older version of a package than
the one provided by the current contents of the channel, or a package
that has been removed from the channel. Thats when
<emphasis>one-click installs</emphasis> come in handy: you can just go
to the web page that contains the package, click on it, and it will be
installed with all the necessary dependencies.</para>
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable/">Nix
Packages collection</link>), subscribing to a channel is a bit
cumbersome. And channels dont help you at all if you want to install
an older version of a package than the one provided by the current
contents of the channel, or a package that has been removed from the
channel. Thats when <emphasis>one-click installs</emphasis> come in
handy: you can just go to the web page that contains the package,
click on it, and it will be installed with all the necessary
dependencies.</para>
<para>For instance, you can go to <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-unstable-latest/" />
or to any older release of Nix Packages — and click on any link for
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable/" /> —
or to any older release of Nix Packages — and click on any link for
the individual packages for your platform (say, <link
xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.10pre6622/pkgs/subversion-1.4.0-i686-linux.nixpkg'><literal>subversion-1.4.0</literal>
for <literal>i686-linux</literal></link>). The first time you do

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@ -731,9 +731,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
xlink:href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>RFC 2396</link>
can be written <emphasis>as is</emphasis>, without quotes. For
instance, the string
<literal>"https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2"</literal>
<literal>"http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2"</literal>
can also be written as
<literal>https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/dist/trace/trace-nix-trunk.tar.bz2</literal>.</para>
<literal>http://example.org/foo.tar.bz2</literal>.</para>
</listitem>