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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-05-08 14:57:20 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-05-08 15:30:17 +0200
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Add a function "fetchzip"
This function downloads and unpacks a file in one fixed-output
derivation. This is primarily useful for dynamically generated zip
files, such as GitHub's /archive URLs, where the unpacked content of
the zip file doesn't change, but the zip file itself may (e.g. due to
minor changes in the compression algorithm, or changes in timestamps).

Fetchzip is implemented by extending fetchurl with a "postFetch" hook
that is executed after the file has been downloaded. This hook can
thus perform arbitrary checks or transformations on the downloaded
file.
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