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This is useful when running tools like NixOps or nix-review on workstations where the upload to the builder is significantly slower then downloading the source on the builder itself.
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/xinclude"
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xml:id="sec-prefer-remote-fetch">
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<title>prefer-remote-fetch overlay</title>
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<para>
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<function>prefer-remote-fetch</function> is an overlay that download sources
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on remote builder. This is useful when the evaluating machine has a slow
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upload while the builder can fetch faster directly from the source.
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To use it, put the following snippet as a new overlay:
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<programlisting>
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self: super:
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(super.prefer-remote-fetch self super)
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</programlisting>
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A full configuration example for that sets the overlay up for your own account,
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could look like this
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<programlisting>
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$ mkdir ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/
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$ cat > ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/prefer-remote-fetch.nix <<EOF
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self: super: super.prefer-remote-fetch self super
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EOF
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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</section>
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