nixpkgs/doc/build-helpers
Daniel Sidhion 0decb324b3
doc: improve fetchers overview, deduplicate readme content, follow doc conventions (#297654)
* doc: improve fetchers overview, deduplicate readme content

* Improve caveat explanation and some fetchurl content

* move out consumer docs on source fetching

* move note on mirror URLs to the relevant section

this may be better suited for the `fetchurl` reference, but it's probably better to
just render that information into the manual. for now, because
- contributor documentation encourages mirrors
- we can expect contributors to dig into the source
- linking source files is trivial in in-code documentation
we leave it there.

* move instructions for updating hashes to the manual

* Add more clarity on text, reorganise source hash methods

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Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Dominic Mills-Howell <dominic.millz27@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: lolbinarycat <dogedoge61+github@gmail.com>
2024-04-03 08:18:11 +02:00
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images treewide: Fix all Nix ASTs in all markdown files 2024-03-28 09:28:12 +01:00
special treewide: Fix all Nix ASTs in all markdown files 2024-03-28 09:28:12 +01:00
fetchers.chapter.md doc: improve fetchers overview, deduplicate readme content, follow doc conventions (#297654) 2024-04-03 08:18:11 +02:00
images.md snapTools: remove 2024-03-04 22:22:14 -08:00
special.md doc: update environment helpers in dockerTools docs, add fakeNss section 2024-02-01 01:37:31 -08:00
testers.chapter.md treewide: Fix all Nix ASTs in all markdown files 2024-03-28 09:28:12 +01:00
trivial-build-helpers.chapter.md treewide: Fix all Nix ASTs in all markdown files 2024-03-28 09:28:12 +01:00