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Subject:    Re: [Nix-dev] What is a default.upstream file?
From:       zimbatm <zimbatm () zimbatm ! com>
Date:       2015-07-28 8:38:54
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I think it's used by this tooling here:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.sh#L100
It might also be related to the updateWalker meta attribute mentioned here:
http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes



On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 at 07:20 James Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca> wrote:

> There are many files named default.upstream in nixpkgs. How does one use
> them?
>
> It is clear they have something to do with automatically updating nix
> expressions, but a few minutes of Googling didn't turn up a single
> hint about what tool reads these files.
>
> James
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<div dir="ltr"><div>I think it&#39;s used by this tooling here: <a \
href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater \
/update-walker.sh#L100">https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.sh#L100</a><br></div>It \
might also be related to the updateWalker meta attribute mentioned here: <a \
href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes">http://nixos.org/ \
nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes</a><br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div><br><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 at 07:20 James Cook &lt;<a \
href="mailto:james.cook@utoronto.ca">james.cook@utoronto.ca</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There are many files named \
default.upstream in nixpkgs. How does one use them?<br> <br>
It is clear they have something to do with automatically updating nix<br>
expressions, but a few minutes of Googling didn&#39;t turn up a single<br>
hint about what tool reads these files.<br>
<br>
James<br>
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