[Nix-dev] What about continuing downloads?

Thu Jul 9 14:35:27 CEST 2009

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Marc Weber wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:28:54AM +0400, Michael Raskin wrote:
>> Well, if someone puts up a redirect to a mirror choice instead of the
>> file - at the same URL... You do not want the tarball to begin with
>> "<html>".
> 
> So what's the problem?
> You'll get a hash missmatch and will try downloading from scratch now
> getting the html page only / the new source?

Average Nix user getting a hash mismatch starts investigating... But
yes, it is not a big deal.

I think a flag should simply be passed via a fetchurl parameter. Then
fetchurl can pass it further. default value can be taken from config.nix
using getConfig in all-packages.nix.
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