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

[zimbatm]

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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