Okay, I built it. I do nix --version to get the version number and add that to the flake command:

nix build nix/2.24.11#nix^doc

Otherwise just the #nix^docit won't work. One way to grab the version inside the command:

nix build nix/$(nix --version | awk '{print $3}')#nix^doc\

Now the flake command builds the result-doc while the nix-build command builds the result directories. Both results do have the index.html within the ./result-doc/share/doc/nix/manual/index.html or ./result/share/doc/nix/manual/index.html.

Okay, I built it. I do nix --version to get the version number and add that to the flake command:

nix build nix/2.24.11#nix^doc

Otherwise just the #nix^docit won't work. One way to grab the version inside the command:

nix build nix/$(nix --version | awk '{print $3}')#nix^doc

Now the flake command builds the result-doc while the nix-build command builds the result directories. Both results do have the index.html within the ./result-doc/share/doc/nix/manual/index.html or ./result/share/doc/nix/manual/index.html.

it says:

❯ nix build .#nix^doc
error: derivation '/nix/store/hddqxzfqgx2fhj8q66ss3idym7pk7aj1-nix-2.26.0pre20250107_383ab87.drv' does not have wanted outputs 'doc'

Is it missing in the flake? the nix^doc as output? I'll check

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it says:

❯ nix build .#nix^doc
error: derivation '/nix/store/hddqxzfqgx2fhj8q66ss3idym7pk7aj1-nix-2.26.0pre20250107_383ab87.drv' does not have wanted outputs 'doc'

Is it missing in the flake? the nix^doc as output? I'll check

Simply running nix build .#nix-manual generates two outputs:

• result: Contains the HTML manual, located at ./result/share/doc/nix/manual/index.html.
• result-man: Contains the compressed man pages, located in ./result-man/man1/*.gz.

Perhaps nix^doc was used in the past, but .#nix-manual is the correct output now.

Simply running nix build .#nix-manual generates two outputs:

• result: Contains the HTML manual.
• result-man: Contains the compressed man pages.

Perhaps nix^doc was used in the past, but .#nix-manual is the correct output now.

In reply to @allrealmsoflife:matrix.org
Simply running nix build .#nix-manual generates two outputs:
result: Contains the HTML manual.
result-man: Contains the compressed man pages.

In reply to @allrealmsoflife:matrix.org
Interesting, the nix^doc command does work in the nixpkgs root directory where it generates then the NixOS manual. I'm making a pr though

In reply to @allrealmsoflife:matrix.org
Interesting, the nix^doc command does work in the nixpkgs root directory where it generates then the NixOS manual. I'm making a pr though

In reply to @allrealmsoflife:matrix.org
I see, not sure then if changing to nix-manual is correct? I made a PR though for now

nix-hash --help outputs:

Synopsis

    nix hash [option...] subcommand

    where subcommand is one of the following:

    Available commands:

      · 8;;./nix3-hash-file.mdnix hash file8;; - print cryptographic hash of a regular file
      · 8;;./nix3-hash-path.mdnix hash path8;; - print cryptographic hash of the NAR serialisa>
      · 8;;./nix3-hash-to-base16.mdnix hash to-base168;; - convert a hash to base-16 represent>
        hash convert instead)

I'm looking into it now, will check why the broken formatting