civodul pushed a commit to tag 1.8
in repository guix.
commit 4b0a720ddf05ba03c7ea94dc38bd5ec0ab1285dd
Author: Gergely Risko <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Aug 21 23:46:28 2014 +0200
Document the "out" usage in allowedReferences
---
doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml | 9 +++++----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
index 6db2adc..0470625 100644
--- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
@@ -1561,10 +1561,11 @@ allowedReferences = [];
</programlisting>
enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have any runtime
- dependencies on its inputs. This is used in NixOS to check that
- generated files such as initial ramdisks for booting Linux don’t
- have accidental dependencies on other paths in the Nix
- store.</para></listitem>
+ dependencies on its inputs. To allow an output to have a runtime
+ dependency on itself, use <literal>"out"</literal> as a list item.
+ This is used in NixOS to check that generated files such as
+ initial ramdisks for booting Linux don’t have accidental
+ dependencies on other paths in the Nix store.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
