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Document channel format and excise most mentions of manifests and nix-pull

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Eelco Dolstra 2014-12-13 23:16:08 +01:00
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<refnamediv>
<refname>nix-pull</refname>
<refpurpose>pull substitutes from a network cache</refpurpose>
<refpurpose>register availability of pre-built binaries (deprecated)</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
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<refsection><title>Description</title>
<note><para>This command and the use of manifests is deprecated. It is
better to use binary caches.</para></note>
<para>The command <command>nix-pull</command> obtains a list of
pre-built store paths from the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>, and
for each of these store paths, registers a substitute derivation that
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<refsection><title>Examples</title>
<screen>
$ nix-pull http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.5pre753/MANIFEST</screen>
$ nix-pull https://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-15.05pre54468.69858d7/MANIFEST</screen>
</refsection>