Hi, On 27/03/15 17:40, Serge Kosyrev wrote:
> What is the stance on git:// repositories in nixpkgs? > > They are generally unavailable from behind corporate firewalls. > > One package employing this is grub, as of current master. It's generally better to avoid fetchgit since 1) unlike fetchurl, fetchgit calls are not mirrored to tarballs.nixos.org; 2) fetchgit has no concept of mirrors; 3) it adds a dependency on Git. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
