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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/fetch_strategy.py3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/fetch_strategy.py b/lib/spack/spack/fetch_strategy.py
index 1953d7c1b3..afd293e4ec 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/fetch_strategy.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/fetch_strategy.py
@@ -307,9 +307,6 @@ class URLFetchStrategy(FetchStrategy):
if not self.archive_file:
raise NoArchiveFileError("Cannot call archive() before fetching.")
- if not extension(destination) == extension(self.archive_file):
- raise ValueError("Cannot archive without matching extensions.")
-
shutil.move(self.archive_file, destination)
@_needs_stage