[Nix-dev] hydra and the plus sign

[Lluís Batlle]

Hello,

2010/2/16 Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>:
> Hi,
>
> Lluís Batlle wrote:
>
>> There is some translation to URL escape codes where it should not be, I imagine.
>
> No, this was required in Hydra because some store paths contain the `?'
> character, which has a special meaning in URIs.  For completeness I also escaped
> `+' and `='.
>
>> I have to go without manifests, I guess, until someone fixes this?
>
> I've just fixed this in nix-prefetch-url (r20036).
Where does nix-prefetch-url come into the game, when in a nix-build
some closure is downloaded from hydra?

Has nix-prefetch-url any other role besides the user running it
directly to get the hash of a file?

Regards,
Lluís.