[Nix-dev] Improve docs for overrideDerivation - overridable attributes

Profpatsch mail at profpatsch.de
Fri Jul 1 19:00:19 CEST 2016


On 16-06-30 11:18am, Alex Berg wrote:
> Where can I find explanation for this? If there is a restriction on which
> attributes are overridable, then I'd like to note this in the NixPkgs
> manual, here:
> https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/index.html#sec-pkg-overrideDerivation

I have a short overview of the various kinds of overriding mechanisms here:
https://github.com/Profpatsch/nixpkgs-cheatsheet/blob/master/cheatsheet.org

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