[Nix-dev] fetchFromGithub

Eric Seidel eric at seidel.io
Mon Jun 1 04:05:42 CEST 2015


 `fetchFromGithub` is a wrapper around `fetchZip` [1], so I suspect
 `nix-prefetch-zip` would work.

[1]:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L372

On Sun, May 31, 2015, at 18:44, Arseniy Seroka wrote:
> Hello!
> What is a proper way to get pkg's sha if I use `fetchFromGithub`?
> I do `nix-prefetch-git https://github/repo/owner` to get latest
> revision and hash sum. And use`fetchGit` in derivation.
> 
> But now I want to switch to a right way of fetching from GH. But
> how can I do this (get information about latest rev, date, sha256 etc.)
> to use `fetchFromGithub`? It's hash sum is different than `fetchGit`.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Arseniy Seroka
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