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nixos docs: include note about make for debugging the nixos docs

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Graham Christensen 2018-04-28 04:15:16 -04:00
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nixos/doc/manual/development/writing-documentation.xml
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<para>
The DocBook sources of the <xref linkend="book-nixos-manual"/> are in the
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos/doc/manual"><filename>nixos/doc/manual</filename></link>
subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository. If you make modifications to
the manual, it's important to build it before committing. You can do
that as follows:
<screen>nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux</screen>
subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository.
</para>
<para>
You can quickly validate your edits with <command>make</command>:
</para>
<screen>
$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual
$ make
</screen>
<para>
Once you are done making modifications to the manual, it's important
to build it before committing. You can do that as follows:
</para>
<screen>nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux</screen>
<para>
When this command successfully finishes, it will tell you where the
manual got generated. The HTML will be accessible through the