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1<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 2 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 3 xml:id="chap-contributing"> 4 5<title>Contributing to this documentation</title> 6 7<para>The DocBook sources of the Nixpkgs manual are in the <filename 8xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/doc">doc</filename> 9subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository. If you make modifications to 10the manual, it's important to build it before committing. You can do that as follows: 11 12<screen> 13$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs 14$ nix-build doc 15</screen> 16 17If the build succeeds, the manual will be in 18<filename>./result/share/doc/nixpkgs/manual.html</filename>.</para> 19 20</chapter>