Thanks, that was it. It would help if the comment in the text update-walker.sh generates had a pointer for more information. If I end up applying any update-walker.sh updates I'll look into that.
James On 28 July 2015 at 01:38, zimbatm <zimb...@zimbatm.com> wrote: > I think it's used by this tooling here: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.sh#L100 > It might also be related to the updateWalker meta attribute mentioned here: > http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes > > > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 at 07:20 James Cook <james.c...@utoronto.ca> wrote: >> >> There are many files named default.upstream in nixpkgs. How does one use >> them? >> >> It is clear they have something to do with automatically updating nix >> expressions, but a few minutes of Googling didn't turn up a single >> hint about what tool reads these files. >> >> James >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev