[Nix-dev] Re: is the default builder able to deal with fetchurl being given a tar.xz archive?

[Michael Raskin]

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Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> For instance, `stdenv' knows about `.zip' files, but `unzip' must
> explicitly be added as a build input.  It doesn't know at all about
> `.lzma', so one has to pass `lzma' as a build input *and* override
> `unpackPhase'.  The same applies to `.xz'.

Unpacking xz is easy to add to builder-defs, though.
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