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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-09-13 12:11:40 -0400 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-09-13 12:11:40 -0400 |
| commit | c845c0ccad9a835a69c63c2eadd71d7845dca111 (patch) | |
| tree | 128aef698dbc6bc0b3c187015a5d1af6c0c5dba1 /doc | |
| parent | b14717ab9003452fda7afe0f9627673b9f331569 (diff) | |
nix-channel: Add option to force fetching of manifests
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/conf-file.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml index 82bc025bc..f56cc2726 100644 --- a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml +++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml @@ -364,6 +364,18 @@ build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin</programlisting> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><literal>force-manifest</literal></term> + + <listitem><para>If this option is set to <literal>false</literal> + (default) and a Nix channel provides both a manifest and a binary + cache, only the binary cache will be used. If set to + <literal>true</literal>, the manifest will be fetched as well. + This is useful if you want to use binary patches (which are + currently not supported by binary caches).</para></listitem> + + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry><term><literal>system</literal></term> <listitem><para>This option specifies the canonical Nix system |