update docs for new property types

4 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/doc/FreeBSD.mdwn b/doc/FreeBSD.mdwn
index 2edff223..47b9c65b 100644
--- a/doc/FreeBSD.mdwn
+++ b/doc/FreeBSD.mdwn
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 Propellor is in the early stages of supporting FreeBSD. It should basically
 work, and there are some modules with FreeBSD-specific properties. 
 
-However, many other properties assume they're being run on a
-Debian Linux system, and need additional porting to support FreeBSD.
+However, many other properties only work on a Debian Linux system, and need
+additional porting to support FreeBSD. Such properties have types like 
+`Property DebianLike`. The type checker will detect and reject attempts
+to combine such properties with `Property FreeBSD`.
 
 [Sample config file](http://git.joeyh.name/?p=propellor.git;a=blob;f=config-freebsd.hs)
 which configures a FreeBSD system, as well as a Linux one.
diff --git a/doc/Linux.mdwn b/doc/Linux.mdwn
index 0434d69d..00276f69 100644
--- a/doc/Linux.mdwn
+++ b/doc/Linux.mdwn
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ Indeed, Propellor has been ported to [[FreeBSD]] now!
 See [[forum/Supported_OS]] for porting tips.
 
 Note that you can run Propellor on a OSX laptop and have it manage Linux
-systems.
+and other systems.
diff --git a/doc/haskell_newbie.mdwn b/doc/haskell_newbie.mdwn
index e92481f9..a150b202 100644
--- a/doc/haskell_newbie.mdwn
+++ b/doc/haskell_newbie.mdwn
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ is.
 <pre>
 config.hs:30:19:
     Couldn't match expected type `RevertableProperty'
-                with actual type `Property NoInfo'
+                with actual type `Property DebianLike'
     In the return type of a call of `Apt.installed'
     In the second argument of `(!)', namely `Apt.installed ["ssh"]'
     In the first argument of `(&)', namely
diff --git a/doc/writing_properties.mdwn b/doc/writing_properties.mdwn
index 2209026f..1b7f046a 100644
--- a/doc/writing_properties.mdwn
+++ b/doc/writing_properties.mdwn
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Propellor makes it very easy to put together a property like this.
 
 Let's start with a property that combines the two properties you mentioned:
 
-	hasLoginShell :: UserName -> FilePath -> Property
+	hasLoginShell :: UserName -> FilePath -> Property UnixLike
 	hasLoginShell user shell = shellSetTo user shell `requires` shellEnabled shell
 
 The shellEnabled property can be easily written using propellor's file
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ manipulation properties.
 	-- Need to add an import to the top of the source file.
 	import qualified Propellor.Property.File as File
 
-	shellEnabled :: FilePath -> Property
+	shellEnabled :: FilePath -> Property UnixLike
 	shellEnabled shell = "/etc/shells" `File.containsLine` shell
 
 And then, we want to actually change the user's shell. The `chsh(1)`
 program can do that, so we can simply tell propellor the command line to
 run:
 
-	shellSetTo :: UserName -> FilePath -> Property
+	shellSetTo :: UserName -> FilePath -> Property UnixLike
 	shellSetTo user shell = cmdProperty "chsh" ["--shell", shell, user]
 
 The only remaining problem with this is that shellSetTo runs chsh every
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ it runs, even when it didn't really do much. Now, there's an easy way to
 avoid that problem, we could just tell propellor to assume that chsh
 has not made a change:
 	
-	shellSetTo :: UserName -> FilePath -> Property
+	shellSetTo :: UserName -> FilePath -> Property UnixLike
 	shellSetTo user shell = cmdProperty "chsh" ["--shell", shell, user]
 		`assume` NoChange
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ But, it's not much harder to do this right. Let's make the property
 check if the user's shell is already set to the desired value and avoid
 doing anything in that case.
 
-	shellSetTo :: UserName -> FilePath -> Property
+	shellSetTo :: UserName -> FilePath -> Property UnixLike
 	shellSetTo user shell = check needchangeshell $
 		cmdProperty "chsh" ["--shell", shell, user]
 	  where