download-from-binary-cache: add nix.conf options

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
index 25a009de9d45..e2890b1031ed 100644
--- a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
@@ -288,6 +288,26 @@ build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin</programlisting>
   </varlistentry>
 
 
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>A list of URLs of binary caches, separated by
+    whitespace.  It can be overriden through the environment variable
+    <envar>NIX_BINARY_CACHES</envar>.  The default is
+    <literal>http://nixos.org/binary-cache</literal>.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+  
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches-parallel-connections</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>The maximum number of parallel HTTP connections
+    used by the binary cache substituter to get NAR info files.  This
+    number should be high to minimise latency.  It defaults to
+    150.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+  
+
   <varlistentry><term><literal>system</literal></term>
 
     <listitem><para>This option specifies the canonical Nix system