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| -rw-r--r-- | guix/download.scm | 14 |
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diff --git a/guix/download.scm b/guix/download.scm index 6622e252b4..c24e0132c7 100644 --- a/guix/download.scm +++ b/guix/download.scm @@ -463,17 +463,17 @@ download by itself using its own dependencies." #:key (system (%current-system)) (guile (default-guile)) executable?) - "Return a fixed-output derivation that fetches URL (a string, or a list of -strings denoting alternate URLs), which is expected to have hash HASH of type -HASH-ALGO (a symbol). By default, the file name is the base name of URL; -optionally, NAME can specify a different file name. When EXECUTABLE? is true, -make the downloaded file executable. + "Return a fixed-output derivation that fetches data from URL (a string, or a +list of strings denoting alternate URLs), which is expected to have hash HASH +of type HASH-ALGO (a symbol). By default, the file name is the base name of +URL; optionally, NAME can specify a different file name. When EXECUTABLE? is +true, make the downloaded file executable. When one of the URL starts with mirror://, then its host part is interpreted as the name of a mirror scheme, taken from %MIRROR-FILE. -Alternately, when URL starts with file://, return the corresponding file name -in the store." +Alternatively, when URL starts with file://, return the corresponding file +name in the store." (define file-name (match url ((head _ ...) |