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pkgs.fetchurl supports an executable argument, which is especially nice when downloading a large executable. This patch adds the same option to nix-prefetch-url. I have tested this to work on the simple case of prefetching a little executable: 1. nix-prefetch-url --executable https://my/little/script 2. Paste the hash into a pkgs.fetchurl-based package, script-pkg.nix 3. Delete the output from the store to avoid any misidentified artifacts 4. Realise the package script-pkg.nix 5. Run the executable I repeated the above while using --name, as well. I suspect --executable would have no meaningful effect if combined with --unpack, but I have not tried it. |
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| .github | ||
| config | ||
| contrib | ||
| corepkgs | ||
| doc/manual | ||
| m4 | ||
| maintainers | ||
| misc | ||
| mk | ||
| nix-rust | ||
| perl | ||
| scripts | ||
| src | ||
| tests | ||
| .dir-locals.el | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .version | ||
| bootstrap.sh | ||
| configure.ac | ||
| COPYING | ||
| default.nix | ||
| flake.lock | ||
| flake.nix | ||
| local.mk | ||
| Makefile | ||
| Makefile.config.in | ||
| precompiled-headers.h | ||
| README.md | ||
| shell.nix | ||
Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation
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