Wouter wrote:
> Maybe we should let the buildfarm (?) automatically distribute
> downloaded sources to http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/.... and let it
> change the expressions.
The first part would be great but the second part very scary (letting the build
farm commit automatically in the Nixpkgs source...).
Maybe a nice approach would be for fetchurl to be expanded to look for tarballs
in a set of default URLs. So if you have
fetchurl {
src = http://example.org/tarball.tar.bz2;
md5 = HASH;
}
it would first try to download from (say)
http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/HASH-tarball.tar.bz2 and maybe some more
(configurable) locations.
Extra points for transparently downloading large files via Bittorrent ;-)
--
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco
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