[Nix-dev] Re: Missing descriptions in Nixpkgs

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Sun Dec 14 14:36:03 CET 2008


Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>> or how to find out which attribute is invalid?
>>> As usual with abort-messages - grep helps...
>> 
>> `grep' wouldn't help much here: every package is supposed to have
>> `meta.description'.
>
> grep 'Write a description' -r /etc/nixos/nixpkgs
> is exactly how I located the problem.

Ah right, I saw the patch:

-		description = "
-		${abort "Write a description"}
-";
+		description = "Qemu sample image.";

Funny because the description itself is smaller than the error message.
:-)

Ludo'.




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