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Manual: improve source checkout section

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Evgeny Egorochkin 2013-08-06 19:22:20 +03:00
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@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ uses the NixOS and Nixpkgs sources provided by the
<literal>nixos-unstable</literal> channel (kept in
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos</filename>).
To modify NixOS, however, you should check out the latest sources from
Subversion. This is done using the following command:
Git. This is done using the following command:
<screen>
$ nixos-checkout <replaceable>/my/sources</replaceable>
</screen>
or
<screen>
$ mkdir -p <replaceable>/my/sources</replaceable>
$ cd <replaceable>/my/sources</replaceable>
$ nix-env -i git
$ git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixos.git
$ git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
</screen>
This will check out the latest NixOS sources to
<filename><replaceable>/my/sources</replaceable>/nixos</filename> and
the Nixpkgs sources to