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authorJan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>2020-09-19 23:40:04 +0200
committerJan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com>2020-09-20 20:11:46 +0200
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maintainers/scripts/update.nix: support filling in auto-commit attributes
We can determine all of them when attrPath is present so we might jsut as well do it.
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diff --git a/doc/stdenv/stdenv.xml b/doc/stdenv/stdenv.xml
index 060dc80c915..2a148a9c2a1 100644
--- a/doc/stdenv/stdenv.xml
+++ b/doc/stdenv/stdenv.xml
@@ -518,6 +518,9 @@ passthru.updateScript = {
 ]
 </programlisting>
         </para>
+        <para>
+          When the returned array contains exactly one object (e.g. <literal>[{}]</literal>), keys can be omitted and will be determined automatically. Finding out <variable>newVersion</variable> requires <variable>attrPath</variable> to be present either in the update script output or passed to the <variable>passthru.updateScript</variable> attribute set.
+        </para>
        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>