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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-07-29T18·37-0400 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-07-29T18·37-0400 |
| commit | f15083c10afaebb8f2a0e7fbc95dd4cc5208c992 (patch) | |
| tree | 5a5f7ef7babfb1a31a51d7ecabf97adcb430fde4 /doc/manual/opt-common.xml | |
| parent | 3a4623afbbc1bff85bde33167d36e8c5a4a3df0d (diff) | |
Document the --option flag
Pointed out by Daniel Santa Cruz on IRC.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/opt-common.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/opt-common.xml b/doc/manual/opt-common.xml index b9df23dcfbe9..0b57517670be 100644 --- a/doc/manual/opt-common.xml +++ b/doc/manual/opt-common.xml @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ <listitem><para>Causes Nix to print out a stack trace in case of Nix expression evaluation errors.</para></listitem> - + </varlistentry> @@ -351,6 +351,16 @@ </varlistentry> +<varlistentry><term><option>--option</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term> + + <listitem><para>Set the Nix configuration option + <replaceable>name</replaceable> to <replaceable>value</replaceable>. + This overrides settings in the Nix configuration file (see + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nix.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).</para></listitem> + +</varlistentry> + + </variablelist> |