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| author | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2020-07-23 14:28:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> | 2020-07-23 18:27:20 +0200 |
| commit | 802150f987e720452920a3d1993c3b4b36861116 (patch) | |
| tree | 25deb10e810a2b3e92ce82af72e39140226b1388 /doc/manual/src/expressions/advanced-attributes.md | |
| parent | ee051084723333fc5889c604c829669800e8b43c (diff) | |
<replaceable> -> <emphasis>
Pandoc doesn't know <replaceable> so let's force it to be rendered as
italics.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/src/expressions/advanced-attributes.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/expressions/advanced-attributes.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/expressions/advanced-attributes.md b/doc/manual/src/expressions/advanced-attributes.md index 01e18513d..3582fa268 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/expressions/advanced-attributes.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/expressions/advanced-attributes.md @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ Derivations can declare some infrequently used optional attributes. attribute should be a list of pairs `[ name1 path1 name2 path2 ... - ]`. The references graph of each pathN will be stored in a text file - nameN in the temporary build directory. The text files have the - format used by `nix-store + ]`. The references graph of each *pathN* will be stored in a text + file *nameN* in the temporary build directory. The text files have + the format used by `nix-store --register-validity` (with the deriver fields left empty). For example, when the following derivation is built: @@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ Derivations can declare some infrequently used optional attributes. then when the builder runs, the environment variable `bigPath` will contain the absolute path to a temporary file containing `a very long - string`. That is, for any attribute x listed in `passAsFile`, Nix + string`. That is, for any attribute *x* listed in `passAsFile`, Nix will pass an environment variable `xPath` holding the path of the - file containing the value of attribute x. This is useful when you + file containing the value of attribute *x*. This is useful when you need to pass large strings to a builder, since most operating systems impose a limit on the size of the environment (typically, a few hundred kilobyte). |