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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-11-06T12·44+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-11-06T12·44+0100
commit620e92e880f8a011c5f465ea4fee2abf857d4ab2 (patch)
treec0dd50bfdc39cb781ec0ff59259155630b4b4d4b /doc/manual
parentdf27db712df658dc9b7548b55fd65a15515d4d85 (diff)
Add an option ‘use-binary-caches’
This allows disabling the use of binary caches, e.g.

  $ nix-build ... --option use-binary-caches false

Note that

  $ nix-build ... --option binary-caches ''

does not disable all binary caches, since the caches defined by
channels will still be used.
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diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
index 2dc260b35756..6a575b9e3a0a 100644
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+++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
@@ -318,6 +318,16 @@ build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin</programlisting>
   </varlistentry>
 
 
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>use-binary-caches</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal> (the default),
+    Nix will check the binary caches specified by
+    <option>binary-caches</option> and related options to obtain
+    binary substitutes.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
   <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches</literal></term>
 
     <listitem><para>A list of URLs of binary caches, separated by