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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/installation
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
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