prefer-fetch-remote: an overlay to fetch on remote builders

This is useful when running tools like NixOps or nix-review
on workstations where the upload to the builder is significantly
slower then downloading the source on the builder itself.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchipfs/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchipfs/default.nix
index dc894979422..7a66999ec56 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchipfs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchipfs/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 , meta           ? {}
 , port           ? "8080"
 , postFetch      ? ""
+, preferLocalBuild ? true
 }:
 
 assert sha512 != "" -> builtins.compareVersions "1.11" builtins.nixVersion <= 0;
@@ -42,11 +43,10 @@ if (!hasHash) then throw "Specify sha for fetchipfs fixed-output derivation" els
           postFetch
           ipfs
           url
-          port;
+          port
+          meta;
 
   # Doing the download on a remote machine just duplicates network
   # traffic, so don't do that.
-  preferLocalBuild = true;
-
-  inherit meta;
+  inherit preferLocalBuild;
 }