Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 04/30/2010 10:47 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
>
>> I've just commited support for "restricted downloads" in fetchurl. The
>> idea is that you can write
>> src = fetchurl {
>> url = "http://restricted.noltd/download.html";;
>> name = "my_restricted_src.zip";
>> restricted = true;
>> sha256 = "myhash";
>> };
>
> This is an abuse of fetchurl. You should have a different fixed-output
> derivation function that always fails (say, `requireFile { name = ...;
> sha256 =
> ...; errorMessage = ...; }') - there is no need to use fetchurl for this
> purpose.
Thanks, moved to requireFile in trivial-builders.nix (r21575).
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