fetchurl instantiations, instead of passing the mirrors to fetchurl
instantiations via environment variables. This makes the resulting
store derivations (.drv files) much smaller, which in turn makes
nix-env/nix-instantiate faster (4.8 -> 4.2 seconds on nix-env -qa
--out-path).
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mirror:// sites through environment variables, e.g.
NIX_MIRRORS_gnu="ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/"
or
NIX_MIRRORS_sourceforge="http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/"
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fetchurl {
url = http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zapping/zapping-0.9.6.tar.bz2;
md5 = "8306775c6a11de4d72345b5eee970ea6";
};
you can write
fetchurl {
url = mirror://sourceforge/zapping/zapping-0.9.6.tar.bz2;
md5 = "8306775c6a11de4d72345b5eee970ea6";
};
which causes fetchurl to try the SourceForge mirrors listed in the
`sourceforge' attribute in build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix.
(They're currently tried in sequence, and the lists of mirrors are
not configurable yet.)
The syntax for mirror URLs is mirror://site/path/to/file, where
`site' is currently one of `sourceforge', `gnu' (mirrors of
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu) and `kernel' (mirrors of
http://www.all.kernel.org/pub/).
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fetching a file with hash HASH of type TYPE, we first try to
download <base-url>/<type>/<hash>, where <base-url> is one of a list
of mirrors. For instance, given
src = fetchurl {
url = http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.6/source/firefox-2.0.0.6-source.tar.bz2;
sha1 = "eb72f55e4a8bf08e8c6ef227c0ade3d068ba1082";
};
and the mirror list [http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs], we first
try to download
eb72f55e4a
and if that fails, we use the original URL.
The list of mirrors is not yet user-configurable.
* `fetchurl' now also accepts an argument `urls' instead of `url' for
a list of alternative download locations, which fetchurl will try in
sequence.
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* Make builders unexecutable by removing the hash-bang line and
execute permission.
* Convert calls to `derivation' to `mkDerivation'.
* Remove `system' and `stdenv' attributes from calls to
`mkDerivation'. These transformations were all done automatically,
so it is quite possible I broke stuff.
* Put the `mkDerivation' function in stdenv/generic.
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builders for typical Autoconf-style to be much shorten, e.g.,
. $stdenv/setup
genericBuild
The generic builder does lots of stuff automatically:
- Unpacks source archives specified by $src or $srcs (it knows about
gzip, bzip2, tar, zip, and unpacked source trees).
- Determines the source tree.
- Applies patches specified by $patches.
- Fixes libtool not to search for libraries in /lib etc.
- Runs `configure'.
- Runs `make'.
- Runs `make install'.
- Strips debug information from static libraries.
- Writes nested log information (in the format accepted by
`log2xml').
There are also lots of hooks and variables to customise the generic
builder. See `stdenv/generic/docs.txt'.
* Adapted the base packages (i.e., the ones used by stdenv) to use the
generic builder.
* We now use `curl' instead of `wget' to download files in `fetchurl'.
* Neither `curl' nor `wget' are part of stdenv. We shouldn't
encourage people to download stuff in builders (impure!).
* Updated some packages.
* `buildinputs' is now `buildInputs' (but the old name also works).
* `findInputs' in the setup script now prevents inputs from being
processed multiple times (which could happen, e.g., if an input was
a propagated input of several other inputs; this caused the size
variables like $PATH to blow up exponentially in the worst case).
* Patched GNU Make to write nested log information in the format
accepted by `log2xml'. Also, prior to writing the build command,
Make now writes a line `building X' to indicate what is being
built. This is unfortunately often obscured by the gigantic tool
invocations in many Makefiles. The actual build commands are marked
`unimportant' so that they don't clutter pages generated by
`log2html'.
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