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Diffstat (limited to 'src/libexpr/primops/fetchTree.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/libexpr/primops/fetchTree.cc | 12 |
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 |