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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2005-04-07 10:47:58 +0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2005-04-07 10:47:58 +0000
commit57d023a184bdc2f30cd7052c157e43ba1bca8288 (patch)
treeed0fb54875b55ab2d49f2cdbd05f34563cfbf093 /doc/manual/glossary.xml
parentf1ae10b992cf8b3b5f13c5bf69f264872c0a4f4f (diff)
* More manual updates.
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@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
</glossentry>
-<glossentry><glossterm>substitute</glossterm>
+<glossentry id="gloss-substitute"><glossterm>substitute</glossterm>
<glossdef><para>A substitute is a command invocation stored in the
Nix database that describes how to build a store object, bypassing
@@ -94,6 +94,16 @@
</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="gloss-validity"><glossterm>validity</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef><para>A store path is considered
+ <emphasis>valid</emphasis> if it exists in the file system, is
+ listed in the Nix database as being valid, and if all paths in its
+ closure are also valid.</para></glossdef>
+
+</glossentry>
+
+
</glosslist>