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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2021-10-26 14:21:24 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2021-10-26 14:21:24 +0200
commit9ce84c64c5820847a8084f31da5c5e2f549cbbcf (patch)
treefacf0600cf03cc8206fe542407db08ce6ac8cc67 /src
parent3155862bae7dac0f5e871f6241d8e1a96f9977bd (diff)
Tweak fetchTree docs
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/libexpr/primops/fetchTree.cc12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchTree.cc b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchTree.cc
index dacd78fd3..e6becdafc 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchTree.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchTree.cc
@@ -287,13 +287,13 @@ static RegisterPrimOp primop_fetchTarball({
stdenv.mkDerivation { … }
```
- The fetched tarball is cached for a certain amount of time (1 hour
- by default) in `~/.cache/nix/tarballs/`. You can change the cache
- timeout either on the command line with `--option tarball-ttl number
- of seconds` or in the Nix configuration file with this option: `
- number of seconds to cache `.
+ The fetched tarball is cached for a certain amount of time (1
+ hour by default) in `~/.cache/nix/tarballs/`. You can change the
+ cache timeout either on the command line with `--tarball-ttl`
+ *number-of-seconds* or in the Nix configuration file by adding
+ the line `tarball-ttl = ` *number-of-seconds*.
- Note that when obtaining the hash with ` nix-prefetch-url ` the
+ Note that when obtaining the hash with `nix-prefetch-url` the
option `--unpack` is required.
This function can also verify the contents against a hash. In that