[Nix-dev] hydra and the plus sign

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Tue Feb 16 11:24:38 CET 2010


Hi,

Lluís Batlle wrote:

> 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?

It's called by download-using-manifests (i.e. the substituter that downloads
binaries).

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