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-<refentry>
- <refnamediv>
- <refname>nix-pull</refname>
- <refpurpose>pull substitutes from a network cache</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
-
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>nix-pull</command>
- <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
- </cmdsynopsis>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
-
- <refsection>
- <title>Description</title>
-
- <para>
- The command <command>nix-pull</command> obtains a list of
- pre-built store paths from the URL
- <replaceable>url</replaceable>, and for each of these store
- paths, registers a substitute derivation that downloads and
- unpacks it into the Nix store. This is used to speed up
- installations: if you attempt to install something that has
- already been built and stored into the network cache, Nix can
- transparently re-use the pre-built store paths.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The file at <replaceable>url</replaceable> must be compatible
- with the files created by <replaceable>nix-push</replaceable>.
- </para>
-
- </refsection>
-
- <refsection>
- <title>Examples</title>
-
- <screen>
+<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+
+<refnamediv>
+ <refname>nix-pull</refname>
+ <refpurpose>pull substitutes from a network cache</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>nix-pull</command>
+ <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Description</title>
+
+<para>The command <command>nix-pull</command> obtains a list of
+pre-built store paths from the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>, and
+for each of these store paths, registers a substitute derivation that
+downloads and unpacks it into the Nix store. This is used to speed up
+installations: if you attempt to install something that has already
+been built and stored into the network cache, Nix can transparently
+re-use the pre-built store paths.</para>
+
+<para>The file at <replaceable>url</replaceable> must be compatible
+with the files created by <replaceable>nix-push</replaceable>.</para>
+
+</refsection>
+
+
+<refsection><title>Examples</title>
+
+<screen>
$ nix-pull http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.5pre753/MANIFEST</screen>
- </refsection>
-
+</refsection>
+
+
</refentry>