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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2014-12-13T22·16+0100 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2014-12-13T22·16+0100 |
| commit | 3b88d037145c8d0f26b0797f8269e65c4c6df4ff (patch) | |
| tree | 42cec75ef79f98e6ab823dee7c843eee9ca3ad1c /doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml | |
| parent | e5a51fab24e01d59927f1a6e3a9e2adaaf7f951e (diff) | |
Document channel format and excise most mentions of manifests and nix-pull
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml index 598c651b5091..eb471677b63f 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-pull.xml @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ <refnamediv> <refname>nix-pull</refname> - <refpurpose>pull substitutes from a network cache</refpurpose> + <refpurpose>register availability of pre-built binaries (deprecated)</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ <refsection><title>Description</title> +<note><para>This command and the use of manifests is deprecated. It is +better to use binary caches.</para></note> + <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 @@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ with the files created by <replaceable>nix-push</replaceable>.</para> <refsection><title>Examples</title> <screen> -$ nix-pull http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.5pre753/MANIFEST</screen> +$ nix-pull https://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-15.05pre54468.69858d7/MANIFEST</screen> </refsection> |