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| author | Vincent Ambo <tazjin@google.com> | 2019-08-15T10·50+0100 |
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| committer | Vincent Ambo <github@tazj.in> | 2019-08-15T15·04+0100 |
| commit | 0ec369d76c2b151fa82839230e6eb4d58015b1dc (patch) | |
| tree | cbe4a21455b6498e80e053986f5859d7b05c6331 /tools/nixery/docs/src/under-the-hood.md | |
| parent | ca1ffb397d979239b0246c1c72c73b74bc96635e (diff) | |
docs(book): Update information on new layering strategy
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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/nixery/docs/src/under-the-hood.md | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/nixery/docs/src/under-the-hood.md b/tools/nixery/docs/src/under-the-hood.md index 3791707b1cd2..6b5e5e9bbf21 100644 --- a/tools/nixery/docs/src/under-the-hood.md +++ b/tools/nixery/docs/src/under-the-hood.md @@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ does not allow uppercase characters, so the Nix code will translate something like `haskellpackages` (lowercased) to the correct attribute name. After identifying all contents, Nix determines the contents of each layer while -optimising for the best possible cache efficiency. +optimising for the best possible cache efficiency (see the [layering design +doc][] for details). Finally it builds each layer, assembles the image manifest as JSON structure, and yields this manifest back to the web server. @@ -103,3 +104,4 @@ to run the image produced by Nixery. [gcs]: https://cloud.google.com/storage/ [signed URLs]: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/signed-urls +[layering design doc]: https://storage.googleapis.com/nixdoc/nixery-layers.html |