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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-07-30 16:39:31 -0400
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-07-30 16:39:31 -0400
commit9de6d10d112665ba1c6d807dd3950ed4c43a4404 (patch)
tree2f9fbded84136decf01c0f707371731e3c1bf1b6 /doc/manual
parentab42bf1dab026d10b74e857a76feff475ae8a162 (diff)
Get rid of $NIX_BINARY_CACHES
You can use ‘--option binary-caches URLs’ instead.
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/conf-file.xml6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
index cccee8d46..c73466ef5 100644
--- a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ gc-keep-derivations = true # Idem
env-keep-derivations = false
</programlisting>
+<para>You can override settings using the <option>--option</option>
+flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
+
<para>The following settings are currently available:
<variablelist>
@@ -310,8 +313,7 @@ build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin</programlisting>
<varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches</literal></term>
<listitem><para>A list of URLs of binary caches, separated by
- whitespace. It can be overriden through the environment variable
- <envar>NIX_BINARY_CACHES</envar>. The default is
+ whitespace. The default is
<literal>http://nixos.org/binary-cache</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>