Make <nix/fetchurl.nix> a builtin builder

This ensures that 1) the derivation doesn't change when Nix changes;
2) the derivation closure doesn't contain Nix and its dependencies; 3)
we don't have to rely on ugly chroot hacks.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix b/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix
index 1ce88593cff2..64d1f121f81c 100644
--- a/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix
+++ b/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix
@@ -5,20 +5,9 @@ with import <nix/config.nix>;
 assert (outputHash != "" && outputHashAlgo != "")
     || md5 != "" || sha1 != "" || sha256 != "";
 
-let
-
-  builder = builtins.toFile "fetchurl.sh"
-    (''
-      echo "downloading $url into $out"
-      ${curl} --fail --location --max-redirs 20 --insecure "$url" > "$out"
-    '' + (if executable then "${coreutils}/chmod +x $out" else ""));
-
-in
-
 derivation {
   name = baseNameOf (toString url);
-  builder = shell;
-  args = [ "-e" builder ];
+  builder = "builtin:fetchurl";
 
   # New-style output content requirements.
   outputHashAlgo = if outputHashAlgo != "" then outputHashAlgo else
@@ -39,6 +28,4 @@ derivation {
     # by definition pure.
     "http_proxy" "https_proxy" "ftp_proxy" "all_proxy" "no_proxy"
   ];
-
-  inherit chrootDeps;
 }