check-meta: Add isHydraChannel

This is needed in order to mark a certain derivation containing a Nix
expression tarball to Hydra so that it is recognised as a channel.

When I first got an evaluation error due to using this meta attribute, I
was under the impression that nobody outside of Vuizvui[1] is using this
feature and that we don't have any occurrence of isHydraChannel in
Nixpkgs.

However, when working around[2] the issue I assumed that it's not
something that should be included in Nixpkgs because we're not using it
there.

It turned out that my assumption was wrong and we *do* use the attribute
in Nixpkgs, namely via releaseTools.channel, which is similar to what
we're doing in Vuizvui.

Since we already include a bunch of undocumented attributes in
metaTypes, it only makes sense to add isHydraChannel as well since it's
actually documented in the Hydra documentation[3].

[1]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui
[2]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/commit/e0685e81b3fdc43a272f0
[3]: https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/blob/53335323ae79ca1a42643f58e520b376898ce641/doc/manual/src/jobs.md#meta-fields

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix
index 85a9c9c4d41ec..7b06692ac8ce3 100644
--- a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix
@@ -285,6 +285,10 @@ let
     });
     timeout = int;
 
+    # Needed for Hydra to expose channel tarballs:
+    # https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/blob/53335323ae79ca1a42643f58e520b376898ce641/doc/manual/src/jobs.md#meta-fields
+    isHydraChannel = bool;
+
     # Weirder stuff that doesn't appear in the documentation?
     maxSilent = int;
     knownVulnerabilities = listOf str;