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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/validate.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/validate.py b/lib/spack/spack/validate.py
index 791e26a2d7..5bdc7b7f66 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/validate.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/validate.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from urlparse import urlparse
from spack.util.compression import allowed_archive
-ALLOWED_SCHEMES = ["http", "https", "ftp"]
+ALLOWED_SCHEMES = ["http", "https", "ftp", "file"]
def url(url_string):
url = urlparse(url_string)