Merge pull request #4796 from asymmetric/doc-substituters

doc: mention Priority for substituters
2021-05-12 14:42:49 +02:00
parent d169eb2a1b 4029f4b05b
commit ba8b39c130
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -617,8 +617,10 @@ public:
        Strings{"https://cache.nixos.org/"},
        "substituters",
        R"(
-          A list of URLs of substituters, separated by whitespace. The default
-          is `https://cache.nixos.org`.
+          A list of URLs of substituters, separated by whitespace. Substituters
+          are tried based on their Priority value, which each substituter can set
+          independently. Lower value means higher priority.
+          The default is `https://cache.nixos.org`, with a Priority of 40.
        )",
        {"binary-caches"}};