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author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2014-12-14T00·07+0100 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2014-12-14T00·07+0100 |
commit | 9c830394ecb42870c58603d7b4d9f620649ad969 (patch) | |
tree | 36e6567ec4cf0ee0364e2c01f89ea16b6ee0697e /doc/manual | |
parent | 4c4e89165227d92f9e11fc18082e50006a04ffd0 (diff) |
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml | 10 | ||||
-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.xml | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/manual.xml | 2 |
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 000000000000..338aa6f3a238 --- /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 4b45812ee918..70f396f81cdb 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 e0e9f10f1173..000000000000 --- 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 5c46f303a11c..b784bb5f3c22 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" /> |