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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/docs/containers.rst5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/containers.rst b/lib/spack/docs/containers.rst
index 0033a081d3..cb0421f2fe 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/containers.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/containers.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ just have to configure and OCI registry and run ``spack buildcache push``.
spack -e . mirror add --oci-username ... --oci-password ... container-registry oci://example.com/name/image
# Push the image
- spack -e . buildcache push --base-image ubuntu:22.04 --tag my_env container-registry
+ spack -e . buildcache push --update-index --base-image ubuntu:22.04 --tag my_env container-registry
The resulting container image can then be run as follows:
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ Linux distribution as long as the libc is compatible.
For convenience, Spack also turns the OCI registry into a :ref:`build cache <binary_caches_oci>`,
so that future ``spack install`` of the environment will simply pull the binaries from the
-registry instead of doing source builds.
+registry instead of doing source builds. The flag ``--update-index`` is needed to make Spack
+take the build cache into account when concretizing.
.. note::