diff --git a/doc/manual/Makefile.am b/doc/manual/Makefile.am index 23c663fba..d06539f9b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/Makefile.am +++ b/doc/manual/Makefile.am @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ XSLTPROC = $(xsltproc) $(xmlflags) \ --param section.label.includes.component.label 1 \ --param html.stylesheet \'style.css\' \ --param xref.with.number.and.title 1 \ - --param toc.section.depth 3 + --param toc.section.depth 3 \ + --param admon.style \'\' man1_MANS = nix-env.1 nix-build.1 nix-store.1 nix-instantiate.1 \ nix-collect-garbage.1 nix-push.1 nix-pull.1 \ diff --git a/doc/manual/installation.xml b/doc/manual/installation.xml index 483c24e98..ef056058d 100644 --- a/doc/manual/installation.xml +++ b/doc/manual/installation.xml @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
Obtaining Nix -The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a source -distribution. RPMs for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedore Core are -also available. +The easiest way to obtain Nix is to download a source +distribution. RPMs for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core are also +available. Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained from its of the head revision of the trunk.
Prerequisites -The following prerequisites only apply when you build from -source. Binary releases (e.g., RPMs) have no prerequisites. +The following prerequisites only apply when you build +from source. Binary releases (e.g., RPMs) have no +prerequisites. A fairly recent version of GCC/G++ is required. Version 2.95 and higher should work. @@ -47,9 +49,9 @@ which are part of the libxml2 and DocBook XSL stylesheets and optionally the -DocBook XML 4.2 DTD. Note that these are only required if you -modify the manual sources or when you are building from the Subversion +xlink:href="http://www.docbook.org/schemas/5x"> DocBook 5.0 RELAX NG +schemas. Note that these are only required if you modify the +manual sources or when you are building from the Subversion repository. To build the parser, very recent versions @@ -103,15 +105,15 @@ $ autoreconf -i like. You must have write permission to the prefix path. -It is advisable not to change the -installation prefix from its default, since doing so will in all -likelihood make it impossible to use derivations built on other -systems. +It is best not to change the +installation prefix from its default, since doing so makes it +impossible to use pre-built binaries from the standard Nixpkgs +channels. If you want to rebuilt the documentation, pass the full path to -the DocBook XML catalog file (docbook.cat) and to -the DocBook XSL stylesheets using the - +the DocBook RELAX NG schemas and to the DocBook XSL stylesheets using +the + and options. diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-pack-closure.xml b/doc/manual/nix-pack-closure.xml index 20e39157c..12eacf502 100644 --- a/doc/manual/nix-pack-closure.xml +++ b/doc/manual/nix-pack-closure.xml @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ another machine: $ nix-pack-closure /nix/store/hj232g1r...-subversion-1.3.0 > svn.closure -Copy svn.closure to the remote machine, then on the remote machine do: +Copy svn.closure to the remote machine, then on the remote machine do: $ nix-unpack-closure < svn.closure diff --git a/doc/manual/style.css b/doc/manual/style.css index bf6fc3ecf..0598443ef 100644 --- a/doc/manual/style.css +++ b/doc/manual/style.css @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ body { font-family: sans-serif; background: white; - margin: 2em 1em 2em 1em; } @@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ h2 /* chapters, appendices, subtitle */ div.chapter > div.titlepage h2, div.appendix > div.titlepage h2 { margin-top: 1.5em; -/* border-top: solid #005aa0; */ } div.sect1 h2 /* sections */ @@ -42,6 +40,12 @@ div.sect1 h2 /* sections */ font-size: 150%; } +/* Extra space between sections. */ +div.section > div.titlepage h2 +{ + margin-top: 1.2em; +} + div.refnamediv h2, div.refsynopsisdiv h2, div.refsection h2 /* refentry parts */ { font-size: 125%; @@ -67,8 +71,8 @@ div.example { border: 1px solid #6185a0; padding: 6px 6px; - margin-left: 3em; - margin-right: 3em; + margin-left: 0em; + margin-right: 0em; background: #eeeeee; } @@ -86,9 +90,9 @@ pre.programlisting pre.screen { border: 1px solid #6185a0; - padding: 6px 6px; - margin-left: 3em; - margin-right: 3em; + padding: 3px 3px; + margin-left: 1.5em; + margin-right: 1.5em; color: #600000; background: #eeeeee; font-family: monospace; @@ -100,24 +104,39 @@ pre.screen Notes, warnings etc: ***************************************************************************/ -.note,.warning +.note, .warning { - margin-top: 1em; - margin-bottom: 1em; border: 1px solid #6185a0; - padding: 0px 1em; + padding: 3px 3px; + margin-left: 1.5em; + margin-right: 1.5em; + margin-bottom: 1em; + padding: 0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 0.3em; background: #fffff5; } -div.note,div.warning +div.note, div.warning { font-style: italic; } -div.warning h3 +div.note h3, div.warning h3 { color: red; font-size: 100%; +// margin: 0 0 0 0; + padding-right: 0.5em; + display: inline; +} + +div.note p, div.warning p +{ + margin-bottom: 0em; +} + +div.note h3 + p, div.warning h3 + p +{ + display: inline; } div.note h3 diff --git a/doc/manual/troubleshooting.xml b/doc/manual/troubleshooting.xml index fb6e1bd63..9a61205b7 100644 --- a/doc/manual/troubleshooting.xml +++ b/doc/manual/troubleshooting.xml @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ This section provides solutions for some common problems. -Berkeley DB: <quote>Cannot allocate memory</quote> +
Berkeley DB: <quote>Cannot allocate memory</quote> Symptom: Nix operations (in particular the nix-store operations , @@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ $ rm __db.00* - +
-Collisions in <command>nix-env</command> +
Collisions in <command>nix-env</command> Symptom: when installing or upgrading, you get an error message such as @@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ to implement some conflict resolution policy. E.g., the script could be modified to rename conflicting file names, or to pick one over the other. - +
-<quote>Too many links</quote> error in the Nix +<section><title><quote>Too many links</quote> error in the Nix store @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ more than 32,000 subdirectories per directory, such as ReiserFS. ReiserFS lies to the kernel by reporting a link count of 1 if it exceeds the limit.) - +
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml index 6f52eb93b..0bdb00b04 100644 --- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml +++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ simple example (a Nix expression for GNU Hello), and then moves on to a more in-depth look at the Nix expression language. -A simple Nix expression +
A simple Nix expression This section shows how to add and test the GNU Hello @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ need to do three things: -The Nix expression +
The Nix expression Nix expression for GNU Hello (<filename>default.nix</filename>) @@ -188,10 +188,10 @@ perl = perl; - +
-The builder +
The builder Build script for GNU Hello (<filename>builder.sh</filename>) @@ -303,10 +303,10 @@ shell script is evaluated with Bash's option, which causes the script to be aborted if any command fails without an error check. - +
-Composition +
Composition Composing GNU Hello (<filename>all-packages-generic.nix</filename>) @@ -401,10 +401,10 @@ some fragments of - +
-Testing +
Testing You can now try to build Hello. The simplest way to do that is by using nix-env: @@ -501,10 +501,10 @@ Just pass the option , where N is the maximum number of jobs to be run in parallel. Typically this should be the number of CPUs. - +
-The generic builder +
The generic builder Recall from that the builder looked something like this: @@ -587,14 +587,14 @@ In fact, mkDerivation provides a default builder that looks exactly like that, so it is actually possible to omit the builder for Hello entirely. - +
- +
-The Nix expression language +
The Nix expression language The Nix expression language is a pure, lazy, functional language. Purity means that operations in the language don't have @@ -1290,11 +1290,11 @@ character, or inline/multi-line, enclosed within /* - +
-The standard environment +
The standard environment The standard build environment in the Nix Packages collection provides a basic environment for building Unix packages. It consists @@ -1547,7 +1547,7 @@ $ make is the source itself, which resides in pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh. - +