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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst index 6c3d7c0602..4b062c8a1a 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/packaging_guide.rst @@ -3915,7 +3915,8 @@ The first step of ``spack install``. Takes a spec and determines the correct download URL to use for the requested package version, then downloads the archive, checks it against an MD5 checksum, and stores it in a staging directory if the check was successful. The staging -directory will be located under ``$SPACK_HOME/var/spack``. +directory will be located under the first writable directory in the +``build_stage`` configuration setting. When run after the archive has already been downloaded, ``spack fetch`` is idempotent and will not download the archive again. |