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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-07-20T02·30+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-07-20T02·38+0200
commit0a2bee307b20411f5b0dda0c662b1f9bb9e0e131 (patch)
treee0449738da384147f851a2343f8d21ae7591a3e0 /corepkgs
parenteda2f36c2ac847e02e871c327e7633693d92cd8d (diff)
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'corepkgs')
-rw-r--r--corepkgs/config.nix.in1
-rw-r--r--corepkgs/fetchurl.nix15
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/corepkgs/config.nix.in b/corepkgs/config.nix.in
index 8918f4ddde8d..90e8edbea833 100644
--- a/corepkgs/config.nix.in
+++ b/corepkgs/config.nix.in
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ in rec {
   tar = "@tar@";
   tarFlags = "@tarFlags@";
   tr = "@tr@";
-  curl = "@curl@";
   nixBinDir = fromEnv "NIX_BIN_DIR" "@bindir@";
   nixPrefix = "@prefix@";
 
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;
 }