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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-12-14 01:07:23 +0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-12-14 01:07:23 +0100
commit9c830394ecb42870c58603d7b4d9f620649ad969 (patch)
tree36e6567ec4cf0ee0364e2c01f89ea16b6ee0697e /doc/manual
parent4c4e89165227d92f9e11fc18082e50006a04ffd0 (diff)
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml10
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml (renamed from doc/manual/builds/enabling-builds.xml)21
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/builds/build-farm.xml22
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/manual.xml2
4 files changed, 26 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..338aa6f3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+ version="5.0">
+
+<title>Advanced Topics</title>
+
+<xi:include href="distributed-builds.xml" />
+
+</part>
diff --git a/doc/manual/builds/enabling-builds.xml b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml
index 4b45812ee..70f396f81 100644
--- a/doc/manual/builds/enabling-builds.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml
@@ -2,9 +2,18 @@
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
- xml:id="ch-enabling-builds">
+ xml:id='chap-distributed-builds'>
-<title>Enabling Distributed Builds</title>
+<title>Distributed Builds</title>
+
+<para>Nix supports distributed builds, where a local Nix installation can
+forward Nix builds to other machines over the network. This allows
+multiple builds to be performed in parallel (thus improving
+performance) and allows Nix to perform multi-platform builds in a
+semi-transparent way. For instance, if you perform a build for a
+<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> on an <literal>i686-linux</literal>
+machine, Nix can automatically forward the build to a
+<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> machine, if available.</para>
<para>You can enable distributed builds by setting the environment
variable <envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar> to point to a program that Nix
@@ -41,7 +50,7 @@ example configuration is shown in <xref linkend='ex-remote-systems'
bits of information:
<orderedlist>
-
+
<listitem><para>The name of the remote machine, with optionally the
user under which the remote build should be performed. This is
actually passed as an argument to <command>ssh</command>, so it can
@@ -73,9 +82,9 @@ bits of information:
<filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will only perform the
derivation on a machine that has the specified features. For
instance, the attribute
-
+
<programlisting>
-requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];
+requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];
</programlisting>
will cause the build to be performed on a machine that has the
@@ -103,4 +112,4 @@ running, they should use the same <envar>NIX_CURRENT_LOAD</envar>
file. Maybe in the future <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will
look at the actual remote load.</para>
-</chapter> \ No newline at end of file
+</chapter>
diff --git a/doc/manual/builds/build-farm.xml b/doc/manual/builds/build-farm.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e0e9f10f1..000000000
--- a/doc/manual/builds/build-farm.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
- version="5.0"
- xml:id='chap-distributed-builds'>
-
-<title>Distributed Builds</title>
-
-<partintro>
-<para>Nix supports distributed builds, where a local Nix installation can
-forward Nix builds to other machines over the network. This allows
-multiple builds to be performed in parallel (thus improving
-performance) and allows Nix to perform multi-platform builds in a
-semi-transparent way. For instance, if you perform a build for a
-<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> on an <literal>i686-linux</literal>
-machine, Nix can automatically forward the build to a
-<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> machine, if available.</para>
-</partintro>
-
-<xi:include href="enabling-builds.xml" />
-
-</part>
diff --git a/doc/manual/manual.xml b/doc/manual/manual.xml
index 5c46f303a..b784bb5f3 100644
--- a/doc/manual/manual.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/manual.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
<xi:include href="installation/installation.xml" />
<xi:include href="packages/package-management.xml" />
<xi:include href="expressions/writing-nix-expressions.xml" />
- <xi:include href="builds/build-farm.xml" />
+ <xi:include href="advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml" />
<xi:include href="command-ref/command-ref.xml" />
<xi:include href="troubleshooting/troubleshooting.xml" />
<xi:include href="glossary/glossary.xml" />