add documentation of tarball-ttl to nix-channel#13305
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How do you build the documentation locally? Or do you have to build the entire nix project? |
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I figured it out: I found and fixed a typo (forgot to append .md) Current addition is the Note:
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This pull request has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-channel-forcing-an-update/64940/13 |
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Please check if the link in the suggestion works. Thanks for finding the usability issue and helping to resolve it!
Approved morally, waiting for the fixups.
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@gagarin.work>
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@fricklerhandwerk I checked that the link works, it does. |
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Motivation
nix-channelis affected by thetarball-ttlsetting, meaning that channels will only be updated if their tarballs are not in the cache. This patch simply adds documentation to thenix-channelcommand to point out this fact.Context
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-channel-forcing-an-update/64940?u=donttellmetonottellu
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