Hi Tim, > I have modified the bind package to add a rootHints option. This > currently uses the pkgs.fetchurl to fetch the root hints file, which > is not the right approach, because fetchurl needs a checksum > provided, and the root hints file changes occasionally (without any > version number).
personally, I think it's okay to use fetchurl because it guarantees that we notice updates in the cache file. The named.cache file does contain a version number (i.e. a date stamp), so can reliably detect that a change checksum change was caused by an upstream update. > For backwards compatibility, I have the rootHints option defaulting > to false, but one could reasonably argue that it should default to > true. Yes, the file should probably be used by default. I don't see much a downside. Take care, Peter _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
