[Nix-dev] What is a default.upstream file?

[James Cook]

Thanks, that was it. It would help if the comment in the text
update-walker.sh generates had a pointer for more information. If I
end up applying any update-walker.sh updates I'll look into that.

James

On 28 July 2015 at 01:38, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
> 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 at 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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