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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/docs/chain.rst6
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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/chain.rst b/lib/spack/docs/chain.rst
index e4a275df66..bd0241c8bb 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/chain.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/chain.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ Chaining Spack Installations
You can point your Spack installation to another installation to use any
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
@@ -22,7 +23,8 @@ you can add it as an entry to ``upstreams.yaml``:
install_tree: /path/to/another/spack/opt/spack
``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
automatically check the upstream instance when querying installed packages,