add documentation of tarball-ttl to nix-channel (backport #13305)#13611
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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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