Re: [Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] git:// repositories in nixpkgs

2015-03-27 Thread Jeffrey David Johnson
At least on github there's always an equivalent https:// url right? On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:49:04 -0400 Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote: fetchurl has a concept of multiple urls and mirrors, I’m not sure if fetchgit does but it would be nice for this use case. git:// should be preferred when

Re: [Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] git:// repositories in nixpkgs

2015-03-27 Thread Eelco Dolstra
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,