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| author | Léo Gaspard <leo@gaspard.io> | 2019-06-17 19:03:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Léo Gaspard <leo@gaspard.io> | 2019-06-17 19:03:43 +0200 |
| commit | e04856a1739a189b6758cc4a0127831b3af02bab (patch) | |
| tree | 4914e4c6d5ff72be1746602fab83548dc9e88256 /doc | |
| parent | b7d2f37680080b6dd0b835af7d3bb8a6292fc430 (diff) | |
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docs: document that nix will not support derivations in meta
That's sad, but… https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2532
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/meta.xml b/doc/meta.xml index ccbc812a862..20cd4f455b5 100644 --- a/doc/meta.xml +++ b/doc/meta.xml @@ -272,11 +272,9 @@ meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux; <para> This attribute is special in that it is not actually under the <literal>meta</literal> attribute set but rather under the - <literal>passthru</literal> attribute set. This is due to a current - limitation of Nix, and will change as soon as Nixpkgs will be able to - depend on a new enough version of Nix. See - <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2532">the relevant - issue</link> for more details. + <literal>passthru</literal> attribute set. This is due to how + <literal>meta</literal> attributes work, and the fact that they + are supposed to contain only metadata, not derivations. </para> </warning> <para> |