[Nix-dev] Using a different mirror

[Eelco Dolstra]

Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
> Since I'm in the US, it's a bit more efficient for me to download
> something like the linux kernel from a US mirror instead of the default
> German mirror. Is there any way to have this be handled automatically?

So this is now possible in Nixpkgs 0.11, as described in the release notes:
http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nixpkgs-0.11/release-notes/

For using US mirrors of the Linux kernel archives:

export NIX_MIRRORS_kernel=http://www.kernel.org/pub/

(The default is now to use www.all.kernel.org.)

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