eb7e0d42db
Presents the options available (linuxManualConfig versus overriding extraConfig, ignoreConfigErrors, autoModules, kernelPreferBuiltin. For advanced hostPlatform customization refer to the commands shared by ericson1234 at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/33813 but it is too advanced to put in the doc.
To build the manual, you need Nix installed on your system (no need
for NixOS). To install Nix, follow the instructions at
https://nixos.org/nix/download.html
When you have Nix on your system, in the root directory of the project
(i.e., `nixpkgs`), run:
nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux
When this command successfully finishes, it will tell you where the
manual got generated.