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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xml:id="chap-contributing">
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<title>Contributing to this documentation</title>
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<para>The DocBook sources of the Nixpkgs manual are in the <filename
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xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/doc">doc</filename>
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subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository.</para>
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<para>You can quickly check your edits with <command>make</command>:</para>
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<screen>
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$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
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$ nix-shell
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[nix-shell]$ make
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</screen>
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<para>If you experience problems, run <command>make debug</command>
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to help understand the docbook errors.</para>
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<para>After making modifications to the manual, it's important to
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build it before committing. You can do that as follows:
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<screen>
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$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
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$ nix-shell
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[nix-shell]$ make clean
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[nix-shell]$ nix-build .
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</screen>
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If the build succeeds, the manual will be in
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<filename>./result/share/doc/nixpkgs/manual.html</filename>.</para>
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</chapter>
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