This is especially useful since the tarball is deleted from zlib.net as soon as
a new version of zlib is released.
---
gnu/packages/compression.scm | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
index 89cb014..b39119f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@
(source
(origin
(method url-fetch)
- (uri (string-append "http://zlib.net/zlib-"
- version ".tar.gz"))
+ (uri (list (string-append "http://zlib.net/zlib-"
+ version ".tar.gz")
+ (string-append "mirror://sourceforge/libpng/zlib-"
+ version ".tar.gz")))
(sha256
(base32
"1i96gsdvxqb6skp9a58bacf1wxamwi9m9pg4yn7cpf7g7239r77s"))))
--
1.7.10.4