From 2818b7cee6729043b9eeef5b6eb6bba68e93b1e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:39:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Updated some URLs. --- doc/manual/introduction.xml | 23 ++++++++++++----------- doc/manual/manual.xml | 7 ++++--- doc/manual/quick-start.xml | 4 ++-- doc/manual/troubleshooting.xml | 2 +- 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manual/introduction.xml b/doc/manual/introduction.xml index d2f23bf44a..2e32a649d8 100644 --- a/doc/manual/introduction.xml +++ b/doc/manual/introduction.xml @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ configuration (e.g., to build configuration files in possible to easily roll back the entire configuration of the system to an earlier state. Also, users can install software without root privileges. For more information and downloads, see the NixOS homepage. +xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">NixOS homepage. @@ -257,14 +257,15 @@ xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/nixos/">NixOS homepage.
About us -Nix was developed at the Nix was originally developed at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University by the TraCE -project. The project is funded by the Software Engineering -Research Program (2003-2008). The project was funded by the Software +Engineering Research Program Jacquard to improve the -support for variability in software systems. +support for variability in software systems. Further funding is now +provided by the NIRICT LaQuSo Build Farm project.
@@ -299,24 +300,24 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details. Some background information on Nix can be found in a number of papers. The ICSE 2004 paper Imposing +xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/immdsd-icse2004-final.pdf'>Imposing a Memory Management Discipline on Software Deployment discusses the hashing mechanism used to ensure reliable dependency identification and non-interference between different versions and variants of packages. The LISA 2004 paper Nix: +xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf'>Nix: A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment gives a more general discussion of Nix from a system-administration perspective. The CBSE 2005 paper Efficient +xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/eupfcdm-cbse2005-final.pdf'>Efficient Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component Deployment Model is about transparent patch deployment in Nix. The SCM-12 paper +xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/servicecm-scm12-final.pdf'> Service Configuration Management shows how services (e.g., web servers) can be deployed and managed through Nix. A short overview of NixOS is given in the HotOS XI paper Purely +xlink:href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/hotos-final.pdf">Purely Functional System Configuration Management. The Nix homepage has an up-to-date list @@ -328,7 +329,7 @@ Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, which contains most of the papers listed above. Nix has a homepage at . +xlink:href="http://nixos.org/"/>. diff --git a/doc/manual/manual.xml b/doc/manual/manual.xml index a5a2902a7c..d564b09d89 100644 --- a/doc/manual/manual.xml +++ b/doc/manual/manual.xml @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Dolstra - Utrecht University - Faculty of Science, Department of Information and Computing Sciences + Delft University of Technology + Department of Software Technology @@ -24,10 +24,11 @@ 2005 2006 2007 + 2008 Eelco Dolstra - September 2007 + June 2008 diff --git a/doc/manual/quick-start.xml b/doc/manual/quick-start.xml index b51f2b1675..8a63f362fc 100644 --- a/doc/manual/quick-start.xml +++ b/doc/manual/quick-start.xml @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ to the following chapters. Download a source tarball or RPM from . Build source +xlink:href='http://nixos.org/'/>. Build source distributions using the regular sequence: @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ file). $ nix-channel --add \ - http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable + http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable diff --git a/doc/manual/troubleshooting.xml b/doc/manual/troubleshooting.xml index ddff0f2970..0d3a892cc9 100644 --- a/doc/manual/troubleshooting.xml +++ b/doc/manual/troubleshooting.xml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This section provides solutions for some common problems. See -the Nix +the Nix bug tracker for a list of currently known issues.