[Nix-dev] Re: restricted downloads

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Yury,

"Yury G. Kudryashov" <urkud+nix at ya.ru> writes:

> I've just commited support for "restricted downloads" in fetchurl. The idea 
> is that you can write
> src = fetchurl {
>   url = "http://restricted.noltd/download.html";
>   name = "my_restricted_src.zip";
>   restricted = true;
>   sha256 = "myhash";
> };
>
> When a user will try to build this package, fetchurl will show message like 
> "go to ${url}, download ${name} and add it using nix-store --add-fixed 
> sha256".

What’s the rationale?

Thanks,
Ludo’.