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

Alex Berg chexxor at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 18:09:56 CEST 2016


I updated the "overrideDerivation" docs yesterday to clarify this. Was
merged today.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/16867

Thanks, all!


On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:

> 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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