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-rw-r--r--corepkgs/fetchurl.nix8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix b/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix
index 39b9dd508..4faedb140 100644
--- a/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix
+++ b/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix
@@ -34,4 +34,12 @@ derivation {
# Don't build in a chroot because Nix's dependencies may not be there.
__noChroot = true;
+
+ impureEnvVars = [
+ # We borrow these environment variables from the caller to allow
+ # easy proxy configuration. This is impure, but a fixed-output
+ # derivation like fetchurl is allowed to do so since its result is
+ # by definition pure.
+ "http_proxy" "https_proxy" "ftp_proxy" "all_proxy" "no_proxy"
+ ];
}