[Nix-dev] fetchFrom* improvement

aszlig aszlig at redmoonstudios.org
Thu May 28 10:57:33 CEST 2015


On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 05:00:10AM +0300, Arseniy Seroka wrote:
> Now it's not necessary to add homepage to meta, if homepage is the same as
> program's repository url.

It *is* still necessary to do that (only without writing it explicitly,
see my comment[1] on the merge commit), as Oxij also wrote in the pull
request and his commit[2].

So I guess we need to decide if we really want to propagate src.meta
attributes to the main derivation if we want to make specifying
meta.homepage unnecessary.

a!

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/89810619ff3cc497ad234e0c3a08048bf817f4b9#commitcomment-11402313
[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/bdf32ed2ab1ed0f627a6217d85be942763c2bb1a
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