Explain fetchTarball timeout behavior in the doc #2164
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edolstra
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| <para>The fetched tarball is chached for a certain amount of time | ||
| (1 hour by default) in <literal>~/.cache/nix/tarballs/</literal>. | ||
| You can change the cache timeout either in command line with | ||
| <literal>--option tarball-ttl <number of seconds></literal> or |
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<number of seconds> is not valid XML. You should do something like <replaceable>ttl</replaceable>.
edolstra
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| Note that when obtaining the hash with <varname>nix-prefetch-url | ||
| <para>The fetched tarball is chached for a certain amount of time | ||
| (1 hour by default) in <literal>~/.cache/nix/tarballs/</literal>. | ||
| You can change the cache timeout either in command line with |
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| You can change the cache timeout either in command line with | ||
| <literal>--option tarball-ttl <number of seconds></literal> or | ||
| in the Nix configuration file with tarball-ttl | ||
| <literal><number of seconds to cache></literal> |
grahamc
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doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
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| @@ -280,8 +280,15 @@ with import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixo | |||
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| Note that when obtaining the hash with <varname>nix-prefetch-url | |||
| <para>The fetched tarball is chached for a certain amount of time | |||
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| Note that when obtaining the hash with <varname>nix-prefetch-url | ||
| <para>The fetched tarball is chached for a certain amount of time | ||
| (1 hour by default) in <literal>~/.cache/nix/tarballs/</literal>. |
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(a nit, you don't have to change this:) <literal> could be <filename>.
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| <para>The fetched tarball is chached for a certain amount of time | ||
| (1 hour by default) in <literal>~/.cache/nix/tarballs/</literal>. | ||
| You can change the cache timeout either on the command line with | ||
| <literal>--option tarball-ttl <replaceable>number of seconds</replaceable></literal> or |
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(a nit, you don't have to change this:) <literal> could be <option>, same with the following <literal>.
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Done! Thanks for the review :) |
grahamc
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| @@ -280,8 +280,15 @@ with import (fetchTarball https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixo | |||
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| stdenv.mkDerivation { … } | |||
| </programlisting> | |||
| <para>The fetched tarball is cached for a certain amount of time | |||
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Oops, one more thing: there also needs to be a </para> before this opening <para>.
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Just add some doc on the timeout mechanism of the fetchTarball builtins (because I only find this information on the IRC :))