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| author | Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si> | 2019-06-18 20:09:08 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-06-18 20:09:08 +0200 |
| commit | 9587693abb9b9c8f624b8f4982d531946543bade (patch) | |
| tree | e243f785deafb0ac291209004afaffd711d5936c /doc/meta.xml | |
| parent | bfc421064b6ea8cba992bee66c5582ad1e798919 (diff) | |
| parent | e04856a1739a189b6758cc4a0127831b3af02bab (diff) | |
Merge pull request #63351 from Ekleog/fix-2532
docs: document that nix will not support derivations in meta
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/meta.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/meta.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/meta.xml b/doc/meta.xml index 22fb433a1d1b8..58c390a68b84d 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> |