For example, github:edolstra/dwarffs is more-or-less equivalent to
https://github.com/edolstra/dwarffs.git. It's a much faster way to get
GitHub repositories: it fetches tarballs rather than entire Git
repositories. It also allows fetching specific revisions by hash
without specifying a ref (e.g. a branch name):
github:edolstra/dwarffs/41c0c1bf292ea3ac3858ff393b49ca1123dbd553
This reverts commit a0ef21262f. This
doesn't work in 'nix run' and nix-shell because setns() fails in
multithreaded programs, and Boehm GC mark threads are uncancellable.
Fixes#2646.
- The instructions for using nix-shell as an interpreter has a Haskell script
example that doesn't work on more recent versions of Nix. Update the
instructions with a working command
"configure.ac" is used to generate "configure", which is supposed to be
run with /bin/sh (as suggested by the shebang line of "configure"). As a
result it is a good idea to remove any /bin/sh-incompatible syntax from
configure.ac. Otherwise, systems that do not use Bash as their /bin/sh
are unable to run "configure" due to syntax errors.
SRI hashes (https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/) combine the hash algorithm and
a base-64 hash. This allows more concise and standard hash
specifications. For example, instead of
import <nix/fetchurl.nl> {
url = https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-2.1.3/nix-2.1.3.tar.xz;
sha256 = "5d22dad058d5c800d65a115f919da22938c50dd6ba98c5e3a183172d149840a4";
};
you can write
import <nix/fetchurl.nl> {
url = https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-2.1.3/nix-2.1.3.tar.xz;
hash = "sha256-XSLa0FjVyADWWhFfkZ2iKTjFDda6mMXjoYMXLRSYQKQ=";
};
In fixed-output derivations, the outputHashAlgo is no longer mandatory
if outputHash specifies the hash (either as an SRI or in the old
"<type>:<hash>" format).
'nix hash-{file,path}' now print hashes in SRI format by default. I
also reverted them to use SHA-256 by default because that's what we're
using most of the time in Nixpkgs.
Suggested by @zimbatm.
Use the same output ordering and format everywhere.
This is such a common issue that we trade the single-line error message for
more readability.
Old message:
```
fixed-output derivation produced path '/nix/store/d4nw9x2sy9q3r32f3g5l5h1k833c01vq-example.com' with sha256 hash '08y4734bm2zahw75b16bcmcg587vvyvh0n11gwiyir70divwp1rm' instead of the expected hash '1xzwnipjd54wl8g93vpw6hxnpmdabq0wqywriiwmh7x8k0lvpq5m'
```
New message:
```
hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/d4nw9x2sy9q3r32f3g5l5h1k833c01vq-example.com':
wanted: sha256:1xzwnipjd54wl8g93vpw6hxnpmdabq0wqywriiwmh7x8k0lvpq5m
got: sha256:08y4734bm2zahw75b16bcmcg587vvyvh0n11gwiyir70divwp1rm
```
