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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml24
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/globals.hh14
2 files changed, 32 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
index 6638bf61e..1033d385e 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
@@ -788,6 +788,30 @@ password <replaceable>my-password</replaceable>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry xml:id="conf-negative-disk-cache-ttl"><term><literal>negative-disk-cache-ttl</literal></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+
+ <para>The TTL in seconds for negative lookups. If a store path is queried from a substituer but
+ was not found, there will be a negative lookup cached in the local disk cache database for the specified
+ duration.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry xml:id="conf-positive-disk-cache-ttl"><term><literal>positive-disk-cache-ttl</literal></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+
+ <para>The TTL in seconds for positive lookups. If a store path is queried from a substituer, the result of
+ the query will be cached in the local disk cache database including some of the NAR metadata. Setting a TTL
+ for positive lookups can be useful in case of builds that aren't reproducible, in which case having a more
+ frequent cache invalidation would prevent hash mismatch issues.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
diff --git a/src/libstore/globals.hh b/src/libstore/globals.hh
index 36c8b7357..00147f615 100644
--- a/src/libstore/globals.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/globals.hh
@@ -310,15 +310,17 @@ public:
"Disabled substituters that may be enabled via the substituters option by untrusted users.",
{"trusted-binary-caches"}};
- Setting<int> ttlNegativeDiskCache{this, 3600, "negative-disk-cache-ttl",
- "The TTL in seconds for negative lookups in the disk cache."};
-
- Setting<int> ttlPositiveDiskCache{this, 30 * 24 * 3600, "positive-disk-cache-ttl",
- "The TTL in seconds for positive lookups in the disk cache."};
-
Setting<Strings> trustedUsers{this, {"root"}, "trusted-users",
"Which users or groups are trusted to ask the daemon to do unsafe things."};
+ Setting<unsigned int> ttlNegativeDiskCache{this, 3600, "negative-disk-cache-ttl",
+ "The TTL in seconds for negative lookups in the disk cache i.e binary cache lookups that "
+ "return an invalid path result"};
+
+ Setting<unsigned int> ttlPositiveDiskCache{this, 30 * 24 * 3600, "positive-disk-cache-ttl",
+ "The TTL in seconds for positive lookups in the disk cache i.e binary cache lookups that "
+ "return a valid path result."};
+
/* ?Who we trust to use the daemon in safe ways */
Setting<Strings> allowedUsers{this, {"*"}, "allowed-users",
"Which users or groups are allowed to connect to the daemon."};