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authorShea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>2016-08-12 06:38:08 -0400
committerShea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>2017-02-07 15:56:32 -0500
commit418a837897e597c5dc2eb4e458462bd04b2abde7 (patch)
tree78cbf81db32de59f5844239bc45ae210df033009 /doc/manual
parent4724903c78e80481fc63d627081fac6a98e4205d (diff)
Remove perl dependency.
Fixes #341
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml
index f85837003..d5bc1c592 100644
--- a/doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ purposes. It uses <command>ssh</command> and
<command>nix-copy-closure</command> to copy the build inputs and
outputs and perform the remote build. To use it, you should set
<envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar> to
-<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/libexec/nix/build-remote.pl</filename>.
+<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/libexec/nix/build-remote</filename>.
You should also define a list of available build machines and point
the environment variable <envar>NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS</envar> to
it. <envar>NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS</envar> must be an absolute path. An
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ bits of information:
should not have a passphrase!</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The maximum number of builds that
- <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will execute in parallel on the
+ <filename>build-remote</filename> will execute in parallel on the
machine. Typically this should be equal to the number of CPU cores.
For instance, the machine <literal>itchy</literal> in the example
will execute up to 8 builds in parallel.</para></listitem>
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ bits of information:
<listitem><para>A comma-separated list of <emphasis>supported
features</emphasis>. If a derivation has the
<varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname> attribute, then
- <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will only perform the
+ <filename>build-remote</filename> will only perform the
derivation on a machine that has the specified features. For
instance, the attribute
@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];
You should also set up the environment variable
<envar>NIX_CURRENT_LOAD</envar> to point at a directory (e.g.,
<filename>/var/run/nix/current-load</filename>) that
-<filename>build-remote.pl</filename> uses to remember how many builds
+<filename>build-remote</filename> uses to remember how many builds
it is currently executing remotely. It doesn't look at the actual
load on the remote machine, so if you have multiple instances of Nix
running, they should use the same <envar>NIX_CURRENT_LOAD</envar>
-file. Maybe in the future <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will
+file. Maybe in the future <filename>build-remote</filename> will
look at the actual remote load.</para>
</chapter>