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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-07-17T13·40-0400
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-07-17T13·40-0400
commit53b24f351852498c52377c2f011617af04bc76fa (patch)
tree39b5940695ca8157c8d8eeab875f1e439b1aa731 /doc/manual
parenta7a43adb79393084a27589bc929e5a22877ba944 (diff)
Allow disabling log compression
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diff --git a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
index 7fd104eb4ac8..1b19e56b5714 100644
--- a/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/conf-file.xml
@@ -297,6 +297,16 @@ build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin</programlisting>
   </varlistentry>
 
 
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>build-compress-log</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal> (the default),
+    build logs written to <filename>/nix/var/log/nix/drvs</filename>
+    will be compressed on the fly using bzip2.  Otherwise, they will
+    not be compressed.</para></listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
+
+
   <varlistentry><term><literal>system</literal></term>
 
     <listitem><para>This option specifies the canonical Nix system