* Interface to support mirror:// in nix-prefetch-url. The function

resolveMirrorURLs produces a file containing the URLs to which a
  mirror:// URL resolves.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=12410

pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/builder.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 source $stdenv/setup
 
-header "downloading file $name with $outputHashAlgo hash $outputHash..."
+if test -n "$showURLs"; then
+    header "downloading file $name with $outputHashAlgo hash $outputHash..."
+fi
+
 
 # Curl flags to handle redirects, not use EPSV, handle cookies for
 # servers to need them during redirects, and work on SSL without a
@@ -98,6 +101,12 @@ done
 urls="$urls2"
 
 
+if test -n "$showURLs"; then
+    echo "$urls" > $out
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+
 if test -n "$preferHashedMirrors"; then
     tryHashedMirrors
 fi

pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/default.nix

@@ -20,12 +20,16 @@
 , md5 ? ""
 , sha1 ? ""
 , sha256 ? ""
+
+, # If set, don't download the file, but write a list of all possible
+  # URLs (resulting from resolving mirror:// URLs) to $out.
+  showURLs ? false
 }:
 
 assert urls != [] -> url == "";
 assert url != "" -> urls == [];
 
-assert (outputHash != "" && outputHashAlgo != "")
+assert showURLs || (outputHash != "" && outputHashAlgo != "")
     || md5 != "" || sha1 != "" || sha256 != "";
 
 let
@@ -45,7 +49,8 @@ in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   name =
-    if name != "" then name
+    if showURLs then "urls"
+    else if name != "" then name
     else baseNameOf (toString (builtins.head urls_));
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   buildInputs = [curl];
@@ -76,6 +81,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
     # command-line.
     "NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS"
   ] ++ (map (site: "NIX_MIRRORS_${site}") sites);
+
+  inherit showURLs;
 }
 
 # Pass the mirror locations to the builder.

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -337,6 +337,11 @@ let pkgs = rec {
   # linked curl in the case of stdenv-linux).
   fetchurlBoot = stdenv.fetchurlBoot;
 
+  resolveMirrorURLs = {url}: fetchurl {
+    showURLs = true;
+    inherit url;
+  };
+
   makeInitrd = {contents}: import ../build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix {
     inherit stdenv perl cpio contents;
   };