Fix 'error 9 while decompressing xz file'

Once we've started writing data to a Sink, we can't restart a download
request, because then we end up writing duplicate data to the
Sink. Therefore we shouldn't handle retries in Downloader but at a
higher level (in particular, in copyStorePath()).

Fixes #2952.

(cherry picked from commit a67cf5a3585c41dd9f219a2c7aa9cf67fa69520b)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/types.hh b/src/libutil/types.hh
index 92bf469b5c6f..88e3243f47a5 100644
--- a/src/libutil/types.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/types.hh
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ public:
     const string & msg() const { return err; }
     const string & prefix() const { return prefix_; }
     BaseError & addPrefix(const FormatOrString & fs);
+
+    virtual bool isTransient() { return false; }
 };
 
 #define MakeError(newClass, superClass) \