docs: update chain.rst to improve discussion of upstreams (#43918)
* Update chain.rst * Update lib/spack/docs/chain.rst Co-authored-by: Wouter Deconinck <wdconinc@gmail.com> * Update lib/spack/docs/chain.rst Co-authored-by: Wouter Deconinck <wdconinc@gmail.com> * docs: rm leading spaces to avoid indent --------- Co-authored-by: Wouter Deconinck <wdconinc@gmail.com>
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		| @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ Chaining Spack Installations | |||||||
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| You can point your Spack installation to another installation to use any | You can point your Spack installation to another installation to use any | ||||||
| packages that are installed there. To register the other Spack instance, | packages that are installed there. To register the other Spack instance, | ||||||
| you can add it as an entry to ``upstreams.yaml``: | you can add it as an entry to ``upstreams.yaml`` at any of the | ||||||
|  | :ref:`configuration-scopes`: | ||||||
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| .. code-block:: yaml | .. code-block:: yaml | ||||||
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| @@ -22,7 +23,8 @@ you can add it as an entry to ``upstreams.yaml``: | |||||||
|       install_tree: /path/to/another/spack/opt/spack |       install_tree: /path/to/another/spack/opt/spack | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
| ``install_tree`` must point to the ``opt/spack`` directory inside of the | ``install_tree`` must point to the ``opt/spack`` directory inside of the | ||||||
| Spack base directory. | Spack base directory, or the location of the ``install_tree`` defined | ||||||
|  | in :ref:`config.yaml <config-yaml>`. | ||||||
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| Once the upstream Spack instance has been added, ``spack find`` will | Once the upstream Spack instance has been added, ``spack find`` will | ||||||
| automatically check the upstream instance when querying installed packages, | automatically check the upstream instance when querying installed packages, | ||||||
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