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authorFrederik Rietdijk <fridh@fridh.nl>2018-08-09 18:28:15 +0200
committerFrederik Rietdijk <fridh@fridh.nl>2018-08-09 18:28:15 +0200
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diff --git a/doc/package-notes.xml b/doc/package-notes.xml
index 68d8f18e75a..0634432fe95 100644
--- a/doc/package-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/package-notes.xml
@@ -705,4 +705,52 @@ overrides = super: self: rec {
 </programlisting>
   </para>
  </section>
+ <section xml:id="sec-citrix">
+  <title>Citrix Receiver</title>
+
+  <para>
+   The <link xlink:href="https://www.citrix.com/products/receiver/">Citrix Receiver</link> is a remote
+   desktop viewer which provides access to
+   <link xlink:href="https://www.citrix.com/products/xenapp-xendesktop/">XenDesktop</link> installations.
+  </para>
+
+  <section xml:id="sec-citrix-base">
+   <title>Basic usage</title>
+   <para>
+    The tarball archive needs to be downloaded manually as the licenses agreements of the vendor
+    need to be accepted first. This is available at the
+    <link xlink:href="https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/">download page at citrix.com</link>.
+    Then run <literal>nix-prefetch-url file://$PWD/linuxx64-$version.tar.gz</literal>.
+    With the archive available in the store the package can be built and installed with Nix.
+   </para>
+
+   <para>
+    <emphasis>Note: it's recommended to install <literal>Citrix Receiver</literal> using
+    <literal>nix-env -i</literal> or globally to ensure that the <literal>.desktop</literal> files
+    are installed properly into <literal>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</literal>. Otherwise it won't
+    be possible to open <literal>.ica</literal> files
+    automatically from the browser to start a Citrix connection.</emphasis>
+   </para>
+  </section>
+  <section xml:id="sec-citrix-custom-certs">
+   <title>Custom certificates</title>
+   <para>
+    The <literal>Citrix Receiver</literal> in <literal>nixpkgs</literal> trusts several certificates
+    <link xlink:href="https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html">from the Mozilla database</link> by default.
+    However several companies using Citrix might require their own corporate certificate. On distros with imperative
+    packaging these certs can be stored easily in
+    <link xlink:href="https://developer-docs.citrix.com/projects/receiver-for-linux-command-reference/en/13.7/"><literal>$ICAROOT</literal></link>,
+    however this directory is a store path in <literal>nixpkgs</literal>. In order to work around this issue the package provides a simple
+    mechanism to add custom certificates without rebuilding the entire package using <literal>symlinkJoin</literal>:
+
+<programlisting>
+<![CDATA[with import <nixpkgs> { config.allowUnfree = true; };
+let extraCerts = [ ./custom-cert-1.pem ./custom-cert-2.pem /* ... */ ]; in
+citrix_receiver.override {
+  inherit extraCerts;
+}]]>
+</programlisting>
+   </para>
+  </section>
+ </section>
 </chapter>
diff --git a/doc/reviewing-contributions.xml b/doc/reviewing-contributions.xml
index 673ff92d2c8..88bb1efdfd3 100644
--- a/doc/reviewing-contributions.xml
+++ b/doc/reviewing-contributions.xml
@@ -103,8 +103,9 @@
     <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
       <para>
-       mention-bot usually notifies GitHub users based on the submitted changes,
-       but it can happen that it misses some of the package maintainers.
+       <link xlink:href="https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/">CODEOWNERS</link>
+       will make GitHub notify users based on the submitted changes, but it can
+       happen that it misses some of the package maintainers.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
@@ -376,8 +377,9 @@ $ nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review -k pr PRNUMBER"
     <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
       <para>
-       Mention-bot notify GitHub users based on the submitted changes, but it
-       can happen that it miss some of the package maintainers.
+       <link xlink:href="https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/">CODEOWNERS</link>
+       will make GitHub notify users based on the submitted changes, but it can
+       happen that it misses some of the package maintainers.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>