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@@ -181,9 +181,17 @@ Currently the `type` attribute can be one of the following:
* `tarball`: Tarballs. The location of the tarball is specified by the
attribute `url`.
- In URL form, the schema must be `http://`, `https://` or `file://`
- URLs and the extension must be `.zip`, `.tar`, `.tgz`, `.tar.gz`,
- `.tar.xz`, `.tar.bz2` or `.tar.zst`.
+ In URL form, the schema must be `tarball+http://`, `tarball+https://` or `tarball+file://`.
+ If the extension corresponds to a known archive format (`.zip`, `.tar`,
+ `.tgz`, `.tar.gz`, `.tar.xz`, `.tar.bz2` or `.tar.zst`), then the `tarball+`
+ can be dropped.
+
+* `file`: Plain files or directory tarballs, either over http(s) or from the local
+ disk.
+
+ In URL form, the schema must be `file+http://`, `file+https://` or `file+file://`.
+ If the extension doesn’t correspond to a known archive format (as defined by the
+ `tarball` fetcher), then the `file+` prefix can be dropped.
* `github`: A more efficient way to fetch repositories from
GitHub. The following attributes are required:
@@ -331,9 +339,10 @@ The following attributes are supported in `flake.nix`:
* `nixConfig`: a set of `nix.conf` options to be set when evaluating any
part of a flake. In the interests of security, only a small set of
- whitelisted options (currently `bash-prompt`, `bash-prompt-suffix`,
- and `flake-registry`) are allowed to be set without confirmation so long as
- `accept-flake-config` is not set in the global configuration.
+ whitelisted options (currently `bash-prompt`, `bash-prompt-prefix`,
+ `bash-prompt-suffix`, and `flake-registry`) are allowed to be set without
+ confirmation so long as `accept-flake-config` is not set in the global
+ configuration.
## Flake inputs