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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml7
-rw-r--r--scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh2
-rw-r--r--src/libexpr/value-to-json.hh13
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml b/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml
index 66679ac9a85a..0c58984ac489 100644
--- a/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml
@@ -62,9 +62,10 @@ directories such as
 so if a package builds correctly on your system, this is because you
 specified the dependency explicitly.</para>
 
-<para>Runtime dependencies are found by scanning binaries for the hash
-parts of Nix store paths (such as <literal>r8vvq9kq…</literal>).  This
-sounds risky, but it works extremely well.</para>
+<para>Once a package is built, runtime dependencies are found by
+scanning binaries for the hash parts of Nix store paths (such as
+<literal>r8vvq9kq…</literal>).  This sounds risky, but it works
+extremely well.</para>
 
 </simplesect>
 
diff --git a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
index 465cc1013cc1..bef5cd4f15fa 100644
--- a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
+++ b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if ! [ -e $dest ]; then
 fi
 
 if ! [ -w $dest ]; then
-    echo "$0: directory $dest exists, but is not writable by you; please run ‘chown -R $USER $dest’ as root" >&2
+    echo "$0: directory $dest exists, but is not writable by you. This could indicate that another user has already performed a single-user installation of Nix on this system. If you wish to enable multi-user support see http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-multi-user. If you wish to continue with a single-user install for $USER please run ‘chown -R $USER $dest’ as root." >&2
     exit 1
 fi
 
diff --git a/src/libexpr/value-to-json.hh b/src/libexpr/value-to-json.hh
index f6796f2053e9..c59caf5641bc 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/value-to-json.hh
+++ b/src/libexpr/value-to-json.hh
@@ -36,7 +36,18 @@ struct JSONObject
         attr(s);
         escapeJSON(str, t);
     }
-    void attr(const string & s, int n)
+    void attr(const string & s, const char * t)
+    {
+        attr(s);
+        escapeJSON(str, t);
+    }
+    void attr(const string & s, bool b)
+    {
+        attr(s);
+        str << (b ? "true" : "false");
+    }
+    template<typename T>
+    void attr(const string & s, const T & n)
     {
         attr(s);
         str << n;