Documentation for builtins.fetchurl is incomplete

[lukego]

The reference documentation (Built-in Functions) only describes builtins.fetchurl <url> but it is possible/common to supply an attribute set that includes a sha256 hash and so on instead of a raw URL.

[bobvanderlinden]

I see what you mean, it should also allow sha256 to be defined inside a attributeset (https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix). However, when I try to use builtins.fetchurl it seems to not accept any of those attributes. I'm not sure what's up, but I really want to use builtins.fetchurl like pkgs.lib.fetchurl, just so that I can use the netrc-file setting from nix.conf. Not allowing a SHA to be defined will result in a potentially non-reproducible build.

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[NorfairKing]

Just bumped into this problem again, still relevant.

EDIT: because this documentation wasn't there, I was looking at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/75efa421340b8fb2be6cf5351d3ef36a93b294e1/src/libexpr/fetchurl.nix to solve a non-happy-path problem.

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[NorfairKing]

Still not stale.

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[NorfairKing]

I marked this as not stale due to activity from the stale bot.

[tkerber]

Still relevant.