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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/package-management/ssh-substituter.md b/doc/manual/src/package-management/ssh-substituter.md index bd07b97cc..44dc3ef84 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/package-management/ssh-substituter.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/package-management/ssh-substituter.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Serving a Nix store via SSH -You can tell Nix to automatically fetch needed binaries from a remote +You can tell Lix to automatically fetch needed binaries from a remote Nix store via SSH. For example, the following installs Firefox, automatically fetching any store paths in Firefox’s closure if they are available on the server `avalon`: @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ available on the server `avalon`: $ nix-env --install --attr nixpkgs.firefox --substituters ssh://alice@avalon ``` -This works similar to the binary cache substituter that Nix usually -uses, only using SSH instead of HTTP: if a store path `P` is needed, Nix +This works similar to the binary cache substituter that Lix usually +uses, only using SSH instead of HTTP: if a store path `P` is needed, Lix will first check if it’s available in the Nix store on `avalon`. If not, it will fall back to using the binary cache substituter, and then to building from source. |