36b059748d
Documentation on "classic" commands with many sub-commands are notoriously hard to discover due to lack of overview and anchor links. Additionally the information on common options and environment variables is not accessible offline in man pages, and therefore often overlooked by readers. With this change, each sub-command of nix-store and nix-env gets its own page in the manual (listed in the table of contents), and each own man page. Also, man pages for each subcommand now (again) list common options and environment variables. While this makes each page quite long and some common parameters don't apply, this should still make it easier to navigate as that additional information was not accessible on the command line at all. It is now possible to run 'nix-store --<subcommand> --help` to display help pages for the given subcommand. Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
919 B
Name
nix-store --generate-binary-cache-key - generate key pair to use for a binary cache
Synopsis
nix-store --generate-binary-cache-key key-name secret-key-file public-key-file
Description
This command generates an Ed25519 key pair that can be used to create a signed binary cache. It takes three mandatory parameters:
-
A key name, such as
cache.example.org-1, that is used to look up keys on the client when it verifies signatures. It can be anything, but it’s suggested to use the host name of your cache (e.g.cache.example.org) with a suffix denoting the number of the key (to be incremented every time you need to revoke a key). -
The file name where the secret key is to be stored.
-
The file name where the public key is to be stored.
{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../env-common.md}}