[Nix-dev] fixed hash, fetchurl, should curl follow redirects, distribute diffs only?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Marc Weber wrote:

> Now it happens that the way to get the true source url of a gem is
> querying http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/#{spec.full_name}.gem
> which returns a http 302 redirect which is not supported by
> nix-prefetch-url / fetchurl

Are you sure?  From fetchurl/builder.sh:

curl="curl \
 --location --max-redirs 20 \
 ...

Idem for nix-prefetch-url.

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