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| author | Michael Mercier <mickours@libr.fr> | 2018-05-16 17:48:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com> | 2018-05-30 08:02:46 -0400 |
| commit | 8dd2e28374b6b2f995d1c408b24ec9b838f62626 (patch) | |
| tree | 2afccc1f99f83cb77adc4b55a4a2c38b56238c9a | |
| parent | 966407bcf1cf86de508b20fef43cffb81d8a87dc (diff) | |
Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml index ac1fe7e2f..7bc0d2667 100644 --- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml +++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml @@ -280,8 +280,17 @@ with import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixo stdenv.mkDerivation { … } </programlisting> + </para> + + <para>The fetched tarball is cached for a certain amount of time + (1 hour by default) in <filename>~/.cache/nix/tarballs/</filename>. + You can change the cache timeout either on the command line with + <option>--option tarball-ttl <replaceable>number of seconds</replaceable></option> or + in the Nix configuration file with this option: + <literal>tarball-ttl <replaceable>number of seconds to cache</replaceable></literal>. + </para> - Note that when obtaining the hash with <varname>nix-prefetch-url + <para>Note that when obtaining the hash with <varname>nix-prefetch-url </varname> the option <varname>--unpack</varname> is required. </para> |