Nix 2.30.1
Nix, the purely functional package manager; unstable internal interfaces
 
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flake-prefetch

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Examples

  • Download a tarball and unpack it:

    # nix flake prefetch https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.10.5.tar.xz --out-link ./result
    Downloaded 'https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.10.5.tar.xz?narHash=sha256-3XYHZANT6AFBV0BqegkAZHbba6oeDkIUCDwbATLMhAY='
    to '/nix/store/sl5vvk8mb4ma1sjyy03kwpvkz50hd22d-source' (hash
    'sha256-3XYHZANT6AFBV0BqegkAZHbba6oeDkIUCDwbATLMhAY=').
    # cat ./result/README
    Linux kernel
  • Download the dwarffs flake (looked up in the flake registry):

    # nix flake prefetch dwarffs --json
    {"hash":"sha256-VHg3MYVgQ12LeRSU2PSoDeKlSPD8PYYEFxxwkVVDRd0="
    ,"storePath":"/nix/store/hang3792qwdmm2n0d9nsrs5n6bsws6kv-source"}

Description

This command downloads the source tree denoted by flake reference flake-url. Note that this does not need to be a flake (i.e. it does not have to contain a flake.nix file).

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