The documentation for tarball-ttl
says that its default value is 4294967295. If that’s the case, why does nix search nixpkgs hello
ever download nixpkgs? Shouldn’t it be considered fresh for the next 4294967295 seconds ~= 136 years?
Additionally, the docs mention
Nix caches tarballs in
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/nix/tarballs
.
but
⮞ echo $XDG_CACHE_HOME
⮞ ls ~/.cache/nix/tarballs
"/home/james/.cache/nix/tarballs": No such file or directory (os error 2)
It looks like the directory mentioned doesn’t exist?
What am I misunderstanding here?