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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-08-10T00·28+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-08-10T00·28+0000
commit911bc01454fba42b531f3f8dd0781845b045be63 (patch)
treece049fdfd0ab1ef8b8d582e11e2c9866e3c7fbb5 /scripts/nix-channel.in
parent5e52df18fefb188b7c7a8e917ebeb8ea1f5ed95a (diff)
* Enable nix-prefetch-url caching in nix-channel.
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/nix-channel.in')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/nix-channel.in b/scripts/nix-channel.in
index fd6639ec1b31..6a4603976fb9 100644
--- a/scripts/nix-channel.in
+++ b/scripts/nix-channel.in
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ my $stateDir = $ENV{"NIX_STATE_DIR"};
 $stateDir = "@localstatedir@/nix" unless defined $stateDir;
 
 
+# Turn on caching in nix-prefetch-url.
+my $channelCache = "$stateDir/channel-cache";
+$ENV{'NIX_DOWNLOAD_CACHE'} = $channelCache;
+mkdir $channelCache, 0755 unless -e $channelCache;
+
+
 # Figure out the name of the `.nix-channels' file to use.
 my $home = $ENV{"HOME"};
 die '$HOME not set' unless defined $home;