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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2015-10-07T12·55+0200 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2015-10-07T12·55+0200 |
| commit | f08449ccbd2009b858aae18341aedf3d0829b91a (patch) | |
| tree | 0a5a9a6fe1a009dd9243db14a0e8f1d302cbf887 /doc/manual | |
| parent | e4abf8610be3d9f3023a538460f87be8f31bca2d (diff) | |
nix-prefetch-url: Add --name option
This allows overriding the name component of the resulting Nix store path, which is necessary if the base name of the URI contains "illegal" characters.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml index e1f0c8e5447c..016d8863a94c 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-prefetch-url.xml @@ -91,6 +91,18 @@ downloaded file in the Nix store is also printed.</para> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><option>--name</option></term> + + <listitem><para>Override the name of the file in the Nix store. By + default, this is + <literal><replaceable>hash</replaceable>-<replaceable>basename</replaceable></literal>, + where <replaceable>basename</replaceable> is the last component of + <replaceable>url</replaceable>. Overriding the name is necessary + when <replaceable>basename</replaceable> contains characters that + are not allowed in Nix store paths.</para></listitem> + + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> </refsection> |