fetching a file with hash HASH of type TYPE, we first try to
download <base-url>/<type>/<hash>, where <base-url> is one of a list
of mirrors. For instance, given
src = fetchurl {
url = http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.6/source/firefox-2.0.0.6-source.tar.bz2;
sha1 = "eb72f55e4a8bf08e8c6ef227c0ade3d068ba1082";
};
and the mirror list [http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs], we first
try to download
eb72f55e4a
and if that fails, we use the original URL.
The list of mirrors is not yet user-configurable.
* `fetchurl' now also accepts an argument `urls' instead of `url' for
a list of alternative download locations, which fetchurl will try in
sequence.
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