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authorAmineChikhaoui <amine.chikhaoui91@gmail.com>2018-04-03T10·33+0100
committerAmineChikhaoui <amine.chikhaoui91@gmail.com>2018-04-06T09·51+0100
commit33b08899d591125ad7900e7005e2b8862f31bba0 (patch)
tree2fbf6cce04f9ea6ade43151ff088e2eaf743bddd /doc
parent86930ed414f9243ca75679b924bf26f5940eb8c9 (diff)
re-order the options using the alphabetical order and improve the example in the positive lookup case
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml54
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
index 1033d385e79d..a4d411d7075b 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
@@ -456,6 +456,18 @@ builtins.fetchurl {
 
   </varlistentry>
 
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-negative-disk-cache-ttl"><term><literal>negative-disk-cache-ttl</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>The TTL in seconds for negative lookups. If a store path is
+      queried from a substituter but was not found, there will be a
+      negative lookup cached in the local disk cache database for the
+      specified duration.</para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
 
   <varlistentry xml:id="conf-netrc-file"><term><literal>netrc-file</literal></term>
 
@@ -511,6 +523,23 @@ password <replaceable>my-password</replaceable>
 
   </varlistentry>
 
+  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-positive-disk-cache-ttl"><term><literal>positive-disk-cache-ttl</literal></term>
+
+    <listitem>
+
+      <para>The TTL in seconds for positive lookups. If a store path is
+      queried from a substituter, the result of the query will be cached
+      in the local disk cache database including some of the NAR
+      metadata. The default TTL is a month, setting a shorter TTL for
+      positive lookups can be useful for binary caches that have
+      frequent garbage collection, in which case having a more frequent
+      cache invalidation would prevent trying to pull the path again and
+      failing with a hash mismatch if the build isn't reproducible.
+      </para>
+
+    </listitem>
+
+  </varlistentry>
 
   <varlistentry xml:id="conf-pre-build-hook"><term><literal>pre-build-hook</literal></term>
 
@@ -788,31 +817,6 @@ password <replaceable>my-password</replaceable>
 
   </varlistentry>
 
-  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-negative-disk-cache-ttl"><term><literal>negative-disk-cache-ttl</literal></term>
-
-    <listitem>
-
-      <para>The TTL in seconds for negative lookups. If a store path is queried from a substituer but
-      was not found, there will be a negative lookup cached in the local disk cache database for the specified
-      duration.</para>
-
-    </listitem>
-
-  </varlistentry>
-
-  <varlistentry xml:id="conf-positive-disk-cache-ttl"><term><literal>positive-disk-cache-ttl</literal></term>
-
-    <listitem>
-
-      <para>The TTL in seconds for positive lookups. If a store path is queried from a substituer, the result of
-      the query will be cached in the local disk cache database including some of the NAR metadata. Setting a TTL
-      for positive lookups can be useful in case of builds that aren't reproducible, in which case having a more
-      frequent cache invalidation would prevent hash mismatch issues.</para>
-
-    </listitem>
-
-  </varlistentry>
-
 </variablelist>
 
 </para>