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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml27
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml1
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
index fd09883be..e9947ebc6 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
@@ -757,6 +757,33 @@ password <replaceable>my-password</replaceable>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry xml:id="conf-system-features"><term><literal>system-features</literal></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>A set of system “features” supported by this
+ machine, e.g. <literal>kvm</literal>. Derivations can express a
+ dependency on such features through the derivation attribute
+ <varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname>. For example, the
+ attribute
+
+<programlisting>
+requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];
+</programlisting>
+
+ ensures that the derivation can only be built on a machine with
+ the <literal>kvm</literal> feature.</para>
+
+ <para>This setting by default includes <literal>kvm</literal> if
+ <filename>/dev/kvm</filename> is accessible, and the
+ pseudo-features <literal>nixos-test</literal>,
+ <literal>benchmark</literal> and <literal>big-parallel</literal>
+ that are used in Nixpkgs to route builds to specific
+ machines.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-timeout"><term><literal>timeout</literal></term>
<listitem>
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml
index ff4085cb7..e8ff586fa 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/release-notes.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
</partintro>
-->
+<xi:include href="rl-2.2.xml" />
<xi:include href="rl-2.1.xml" />
<xi:include href="rl-2.0.xml" />
<xi:include href="rl-1.11.10.xml" />