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Remove hashed-mirrors

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Matthew Bauer 2020-06-12 09:51:44 -05:00
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@ -370,34 +370,6 @@ false</literal>.</para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-hashed-mirrors"><term><literal>hashed-mirrors</literal></term>
<listitem><para>A list of web servers used by
<function>builtins.fetchurl</function> to obtain files by
hash. The default is
<literal>http://tarballs.nixos.org/</literal>. Given a hash type
<replaceable>ht</replaceable> and a base-16 hash
<replaceable>h</replaceable>, Nix will try to download the file
from
<literal>hashed-mirror/<replaceable>ht</replaceable>/<replaceable>h</replaceable></literal>.
This allows files to be downloaded even if they have disappeared
from their original URI. For example, given the default mirror
<literal>http://tarballs.nixos.org/</literal>, when building the derivation
<programlisting>
builtins.fetchurl {
url = "https://example.org/foo-1.2.3.tar.xz";
sha256 = "2c26b46b68ffc68ff99b453c1d30413413422d706483bfa0f98a5e886266e7ae";
}
</programlisting>
Nix will attempt to download this file from
<literal>http://tarballs.nixos.org/sha256/2c26b46b68ffc68ff99b453c1d30413413422d706483bfa0f98a5e886266e7ae</literal>
first. If it is not available there, if will try the original URI.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="conf-http-connections"><term><literal>http-connections</literal></term>
<listitem><para>The maximum number of parallel TCP connections