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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-09-16 14:49:00 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-09-16 14:49:00 +0200
commitb1af336132cfe8a6e4c54912cc512f8c28d4ebf3 (patch)
tree2ddaaba65b105320cd90f5edef0173b4a1b55dd8 /doc/manual
parent57f6463ec03c3399f8bd682cecab27ff1671d21d (diff)
Undocument NIX_OTHER_STORES
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml22
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/manual.xml2
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/packages/sharing-packages.xml27
3 files changed, 2 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml
index b52e45030..39e3e9cff 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml
@@ -283,28 +283,6 @@ $ mount -o bind /mnt/otherdisk/nix /nix</screen>
</varlistentry>
-<varlistentry xml:id="envar-other-stores"><term><envar>NIX_OTHER_STORES</envar></term>
-
- <listitem><para>This variable contains the paths of remote Nix
- installations from which packages can be copied, separated by colons.
- <phrase condition="manual">See <xref linkend="sec-sharing-packages"
- /> for details.</phrase> Each path should be the
- <filename>/nix</filename> directory of a remote Nix installation
- (i.e., not the <filename>/nix/store</filename> directory). The
- paths are subject to globbing, so you can set it so something like
- <literal>/var/run/nix/remote-stores/*/nix</literal> and mount
- multiple remote filesystems in
- <literal>/var/run/nix/remote-stores</literal>.</para>
-
- <para>Note that if you’re building through the <link
- linkend="sec-nix-daemon">Nix daemon</link>, the only setting for
- this variable that matters is the one that the
- <command>nix-daemon</command> process uses. So if you want to
- change it, you have to restart the daemon.</para></listitem>
-
-</varlistentry>
-
-
<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_SHOW_STATS</envar></term>
<listitem><para>If set to <literal>1</literal>, Nix will print some
diff --git a/doc/manual/manual.xml b/doc/manual/manual.xml
index 513eb311c..2fdb8435f 100644
--- a/doc/manual/manual.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/manual.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
<holder>Eelco Dolstra</holder>
</copyright>
- <date>April 2014</date>
+ <date>September 2014</date>
</info>
diff --git a/doc/manual/packages/sharing-packages.xml b/doc/manual/packages/sharing-packages.xml
index 573b7c1e7..8fab15f7e 100644
--- a/doc/manual/packages/sharing-packages.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/packages/sharing-packages.xml
@@ -53,30 +53,5 @@ But note that <command>nix-copy-closure</command> is generally more
efficient in this example because it only copies paths that are not
already present in the target Nix store.</para>
-<para>Finally, if you can mount the Nix store of a remote machine in
-your local filesystem, Nix can copy paths from the remote Nix store to
-the local Nix store <emphasis>on demand</emphasis>. For instance,
-suppose that you mount a remote machine containing a Nix store via
-<command
-xlink:href="http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html">sshfs</command>:
-<screen>
-$ sshfs alice@itchy.example.org:/ /mnt</screen>
-
-You should then set the <envar>NIX_OTHER_STORES</envar> environment
-variable to tell Nix about this remote Nix store:
-
-<screen>
-$ export NIX_OTHER_STORES=/mnt/nix</screen>
-
-Then if you do any Nix operation, e.g.
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-env -i firefox</screen>
-
-and Nix has to build a path that it sees is already present in
-<filename>/mnt/nix</filename>, then it will just copy from there
-instead of building it from source.</para>
-
-
-</chapter> \ No newline at end of file
+</chapter>