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nixos/doc/manual/installation: improve explanation of when channels are updated

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The phrasing that channels are updated automatically "[when] all packages have been built" could be
read as "all packages have been built successfully". However, in reality, it only meant to say that
all packages have been *attempted* to be built, so a channel may still contain broken packages. This
patch aims to make this clearer by mentioning that only a selection of packages is required to be
built successfully and by pointing to the files which contain these selections.
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@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ The best way to keep your NixOS installation up to date is to use one of
the NixOS *channels*. A channel is a Nix mechanism for distributing Nix
expressions and associated binaries. The NixOS channels are updated
automatically from NixOS's Git repository after certain tests have
passed and all packages have been built. These channels are:
passed and a selection of packages has been built successfully
(see `nixos/release-combined.nix` and `nixos/release-small.nix`).
These channels are:
- *Stable channels*, such as [`nixos-25.05`](https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-25.05).
These only get conservative bug fixes and package upgrades. For