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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-10-01T16·07+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-10-01T16·07+0200
commit06f29fafe8496ae751e84a8ded0cc1041740cfe0 (patch)
tree47885d8e77feb6c76772239d4ee87192953b310b /doc/manual/command-ref
parenta3c4eb096456673b48f4fc35b76097d67e022141 (diff)
nix-prefetch-url: Support prefetching from a Nix expression
For example,

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A hello.src

will prefetch the file specified by the fetchurl call in the attribute
‘hello.src’ from the Nix expression in the current directory. This
differs from ‘nix-build -A hello.src’ in that it doesn't verify the
hash.

You can also specify a path to the Nix expression:

  $ nix-prefetch-url ~/Dev/nixpkgs -A hello.src

List elements (typically used in ‘patches’ attributes) also work:

  $ nix-prefetch-url -A portmidi.patches.0
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/command-ref')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml1
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diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml
index 0f24bef39abf..9cbaa42a1b1f 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
   <cmdsynopsis>
     <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>
     <arg><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></arg>
+    <arg><option>--print-path</option></arg>
     <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
     <arg><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
   </cmdsynopsis>