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authorJan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>2017-06-11 22:12:59 +0200
committerJan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>2017-06-11 22:13:42 +0200
commite35f3c0679cafb8de84274433159e1b393dca46d (patch)
tree4c32df2d8b985aa0c8a2add597fa990688435295
parent4010313ab901c9022f564dfdc0e9ef27b595aa53 (diff)
doc: Fix some typos
-rw-r--r--doc/configuration.xml2
-rw-r--r--doc/functions.xml2
-rw-r--r--doc/overlays.xml2
-rw-r--r--doc/reviewing-contributions.xml2
-rw-r--r--doc/stdenv.xml12
-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml2
-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml2
-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml2
-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml2
-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml2
10 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/doc/configuration.xml b/doc/configuration.xml
index 56950e07ab5c..ea3acf4e5753 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.xml
+++ b/doc/configuration.xml
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ packages via <literal>packageOverrides</literal></title>
<para>You can define a function called
<varname>packageOverrides</varname> in your local
-<filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> to overide nix packages. It
+<filename>~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix</filename> to override nix packages. It
must be a function that takes pkgs as an argument and return modified
set of packages.
diff --git a/doc/functions.xml b/doc/functions.xml
index 4e7159638cae..4a9015602afc 100644
--- a/doc/functions.xml
+++ b/doc/functions.xml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
<para>
In the above example, the <varname>separateDebugInfo</varname> attribute is
- overriden to be true, thus building debug info for
+ overridden to be true, thus building debug info for
<varname>helloWithDebug</varname>, while all other attributes will be
retained from the original <varname>hello</varname> package.
</para>
diff --git a/doc/overlays.xml b/doc/overlays.xml
index 4b95f3e72880..f8f554bb5569 100644
--- a/doc/overlays.xml
+++ b/doc/overlays.xml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ self: super:
<para>The first argument, usually named <varname>self</varname>, corresponds to the final package
set. You should use this set for the dependencies of all packages specified in your
overlay. For example, all the dependencies of <varname>rr</varname> in the example above come
-from <varname>self</varname>, as well as the overriden dependencies used in the
+from <varname>self</varname>, as well as the overridden dependencies used in the
<varname>boost</varname> override.</para>
<para>The second argument, usually named <varname>super</varname>,
diff --git a/doc/reviewing-contributions.xml b/doc/reviewing-contributions.xml
index f86928bcd5d0..0813e0968e86 100644
--- a/doc/reviewing-contributions.xml
+++ b/doc/reviewing-contributions.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
<para>The high change rate of nixpkgs make any pull request that is open for
long enough subject to conflicts that will require extra work from the
submitter or the merger. Reviewing pull requests in a timely manner and being
- responsive to the comments is the key to avoid these. Github provides sort
+ responsive to the comments is the key to avoid these. GitHub provides sort
filters that can be used to see the <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc">most
recently</link> and the <link
diff --git a/doc/stdenv.xml b/doc/stdenv.xml
index a2530e102ca8..19bacd08f1ec 100644
--- a/doc/stdenv.xml
+++ b/doc/stdenv.xml
@@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ makeWrapper $out/bin/foo $wrapperfile --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ hello
<term><option>--replace</option>
<replaceable>s1</replaceable>
<replaceable>s2</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>Replace every occurence of the string
+ <listitem><para>Replace every occurrence of the string
<replaceable>s1</replaceable> by
<replaceable>s2</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ makeWrapper $out/bin/foo $wrapperfile --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ hello
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--subst-var</option>
<replaceable>varName</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>Replace every occurence of
+ <listitem><para>Replace every occurrence of
<literal>@<replaceable>varName</replaceable>@</literal> by
the contents of the environment variable
<replaceable>varName</replaceable>. This is useful for
@@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ makeWrapper $out/bin/foo $wrapperfile --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ hello
<term><option>--subst-var-by</option>
<replaceable>varName</replaceable>
<replaceable>s</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>Replace every occurence of
+ <listitem><para>Replace every occurrence of
<literal>@<replaceable>varName</replaceable>@</literal> by
the string <replaceable>s</replaceable>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ substitute ./foo.in ./foo.out \
<term><function>substituteAll</function>
<replaceable>infile</replaceable>
<replaceable>outfile</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>Replaces every occurence of
+ <listitem><para>Replaces every occurrence of
<literal>@<replaceable>varName</replaceable>@</literal>, where
<replaceable>varName</replaceable> is any environment variable, in
<replaceable>infile</replaceable>, writing the result to
@@ -1528,7 +1528,7 @@ bin/blib.a(bios_console.o): In function `bios_handle_cup':
depends on such a format string, it will need to be worked around.
</para>
- <para>Addtionally, some warnings are enabled which might trigger build
+ <para>Additionally, some warnings are enabled which might trigger build
failures if compiler warnings are treated as errors in the package build.
In this case, set <option>NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE</option> to
<option>-Wno-error=warning-type</option>.</para>
@@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ fcntl2.h:50:4: error: call to '__open_missing_mode' declared with attribute erro
<term><varname>pic</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Adds the <option>-fPIC</option> compiler options. This options adds
- support for position independant code in shared libraries and thus making
+ support for position independent code in shared libraries and thus making
ASLR possible.</para>
<para>Most notably, the Linux kernel, kernel modules and other code
not running in an operating system environment like boot loaders won't
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml
index 9851eb08afb5..d5d8140e0764 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/administration/imperative-containers.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Thus, if something went wrong, you can get status info using
</para>
-<para>If the container has started succesfully, you can log in as
+<para>If the container has started successfully, you can log in as
root using the <command>root-login</command> operation:
<screen>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml
index e322b6458a1a..d20c2d1aa2e2 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-declarations.xml
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ options = {
</itemizedlist>
</para>
- <para>Both approachs have problems.</para>
+ <para>Both approaches have problems.</para>
<para>Making backends independent can quickly become hard to manage. For
display managers, there can be only one enabled at a time, but the type
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml
index e928c5570874..441393c98276 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/development/option-types.xml
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ code before creating a new type.</para>
<listitem><para>For composed types that can take a submodule as type
parameter, this function can be used to substitute the parameter of a
submodule type. It takes a module as parameter and return the type with
- the submodule options substituted. It is usally defined as a type
+ the submodule options substituted. It is usually defined as a type
function call with a recursive call to
<literal>substSubModules</literal>, e.g for a type
<literal>composedType</literal> that take an <literal>elemtype</literal>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml
index e0271485c361..967fbcf869db 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1509.xml
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ nix-env -f &quot;&lt;nixpkgs&gt;&quot; -iA haskellPackages.pandoc
<listitem>
<para>
- Python 2.6 has been marked as broken (as it no longer recieves
+ Python 2.6 has been marked as broken (as it no longer receives
security updates from upstream).
</para>
</listitem>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml
index f460e00e836e..7279dd058270 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ services.syncthing = {
<listitem>
<para>
<literal>networking.firewall.allowPing</literal> is now enabled by
- default. Users are encourarged to configure an approiate rate limit for
+ default. Users are encouraged to configure an appropriate rate limit for
their machines using the Kernel interface at
<filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ratelimit</filename> and
<filename>/proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/ratelimit</filename> or using the