It would be nice to be able to track Nix requests. It's not trustworthy,
but can be helpful for stats and routing in HTTP logs.
Since `fetchurl` is used so widely, we should "magically" get a UA on
`fetchzip`, `fetchFromGitHub`, and other related fetchers.
Since `fetchurl` is only used for fixed-output derivations, this should
cause no mass rebuild.
User-Agent example: curl/7.57.0 Nixpkgs/18.03
Fixes#27406.
Commit 5d4efb2c81 added an assertion to `stopNest'
which requires it be correctly paired with `startNest'. `fetchurl' calls
`stopNest', but never calls `startNest'; the former calls are removed.
This typo was likely introduced by copy-pasting the error message from elsewhere and forgetting to change the text, during the MD5 deprecation process (#4491).
Deprecation warnings should not be used in Nixpkgs because they spam
innocent "nix-env -qa" users with (in this case) dozens of messages
that they can't do anything about.
This also reverts commit 2ca8833383.
downloads.sourceforge.net is the official way to download tarballs from
SourceForge. However, it is reported as unreliable due to SF's weird
load balancing system.
This commit gives the official mirror utmost priority, and will use
other configured mirrors (which may be temporary) as a fallback only
when the official one can't be reached/download fails/hangs.
References: NixOs/nixpkgs#16900
The two lines I removed technically assert the exact same thing, since `!a -> b`
is equivalent to `a || b`. So, I replaced the two lines with the more symmetric
form to make it clearer.
Otherwise, if the upstream mirror changes (rather than deletes) a
file, then tarballs.nixos.org won't be used even if it has a copy of
the original file, and so we'll get a hash mismatch.
The list we had before contained a lot of junk, i.e. sites that were no
longer online or no longer in sync. The new list of sites comes from
https://gnupg.org/download/index.html.
Upstream likes to move "old" releases to an archive mirror as soon as a
new one is released. This is now handled for free by mirrors.nix.
(No idea why cs.utah.edu was used to begin with; it's now added to
mirrors.nix. Note that it doesn't support SSL, but that applies to
several others so I don't see the harm.)
- Update the instructions for re-generating each of the package set files.
- Provide test-evaluation.nix expression to verify that the package sets evaluates.
- Update list of known broken packages.
