fetchurl

pkgs.fetchurl

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Download the specified URL and return the path of the downloaded file. arg can be either a string denoting the URL, or an attribute set with the following attributes:

url

The URL of the file to download.
name (default: the last path component of the URL)

A name for the file in the store. This can be useful if the URL has any characters that are invalid for the store.

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fpargs:
        transformDrv (
          constructDrv (extendsWithExclusion excludeDrvArgNames extendDrvArgs (toFunction fpargs))
        )