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Writing NixOS Documentation
As NixOS grows, so too does the need for a catalogue and explanation of its extensive functionality. Collecting pertinent information from disparate sources and presenting it in an accessible style would be a worthy contribution to the project.
Building the Manual
The sources of the are in the
nixos/doc/manual
subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository.
You can quickly validate your edits with make:
$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/nixos/doc/manual
$ nix-shell
nix-shell$ devmode
Once you are done making modifications to the manual, it's important to build it before committing. You can do that as follows:
nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux
When this command successfully finishes, it will tell you where the
manual got generated. The HTML will be accessible through the result
symlink at ./result/share/doc/nixos/index.html.