- fetchTarball
  - Nix builtins

tarball

An archive format consisting of a tar file compressed with one of several common algorithms (gzip, bzip2, xz).

2020-10-19

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fetchTarball^ᛦ
- fetchTarball downloads the given URL, unpacks it, and returns the Nix store^ᛦ path containing the unpacked tree. The file must be a tarball^ᛦ, ideally one with a single directory at the top level.