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| author | Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com> | 2018-05-30T12·04-0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-05-30T12·04-0400 |
| commit | f9940f47b36df396799d90c3ff691a1ef0c45c35 (patch) | |
| tree | ae562a56338a7c58130de3b5a3dcc57829ab72c4 /doc/manual | |
| parent | 3c2de9830dfa9e41927c666b7a7083c53886fb89 (diff) | |
| parent | 8dd2e28374b6b2f995d1c408b24ec9b838f62626 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #2164 from mickours/doc-fetchTarball-timout
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml index 5489fab0026a..54f697d852e3 100644 --- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml +++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml @@ -310,8 +310,17 @@ with import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixo stdenv.mkDerivation { … } </programlisting> + </para> + + <para>The fetched tarball is cached for a certain amount of time + (1 hour by default) in <filename>~/.cache/nix/tarballs/</filename>. + You can change the cache timeout either on the command line with + <option>--option tarball-ttl <replaceable>number of seconds</replaceable></option> or + in the Nix configuration file with this option: + <literal>tarball-ttl <replaceable>number of seconds to cache</replaceable></literal>. + </para> - Note that when obtaining the hash with <varname>nix-prefetch-url + <para>Note that when obtaining the hash with <varname>nix-prefetch-url </varname> the option <varname>--unpack</varname> is required. </para> |