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author | Jörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io> | 2018-12-31 08:10:28 +0100 |
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committer | Jörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io> | 2019-01-18 14:41:10 +0000 |
commit | eac6797380af1f0927ab683e2375429826d34e76 (patch) | |
tree | 4d292ad4c8eac2df780174bbcbe143802be68de9 /pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/default.nix | |
parent | 487d2a7ccdf520e60b77809681e4ca377a7b741d (diff) | |
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prefer-fetch-remote: an overlay to fetch on remote builders
This is useful when running tools like NixOps or nix-review on workstations where the upload to the builder is significantly slower then downloading the source on the builder itself.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/default.nix index 5f0c1384c79e..3ce90cbeab3a 100644 --- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/default.nix @@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ in # Passthru information, if any. , passthru ? {} + # Doing the download on a remote machine just duplicates network + # traffic, so don't do that by default +, preferLocalBuild ? true }: assert sha512 != "" -> builtins.compareVersions "1.11" builtins.nixVersion <= 0; @@ -135,9 +138,7 @@ stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation { nixpkgsVersion = lib.trivial.release; - # Doing the download on a remote machine just duplicates network - # traffic, so don't do that. - preferLocalBuild = true; + inherit preferLocalBuild; postHook = if netrcPhase == null then null else '' ${netrcPhase} |