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authorDomen Kožar <domen@dev.si>2016-05-17 17:32:40 +0100
committerDomen Kožar <domen@dev.si>2016-05-17 17:32:53 +0100
commita01b6a0d074dcc81e5a04b79da3f9a02fbb00499 (patch)
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fetchzip: improve error message
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-rw-r--r--pkgs/build-support/fetchzip/default.nix1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchzip/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchzip/default.nix
index 9015f951a51..1145d32ba02 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchzip/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchzip/default.nix
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ lib.overrideDerivation (fetchurl ({
     + (if stripRoot then ''
       if [ $(ls "$unpackDir" | wc -l) != 1 ]; then
         echo "error: zip file must contain a single file or directory."
+        echo "hint: Pass stripRoot=false; to fetchzip to assume flat list of files."
         exit 1
       fi
       fn=$(cd "$unpackDir" && echo *)