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@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ Chaining Spack Installations
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`:
.. code-block:: yaml .. code-block:: yaml
@ -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>`.
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,