On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Peter Simons <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Daniel, > > > What if binutils had a release.nix in its repo? How about gcc or > > clang? What would the expressions look like in nixpkgs? > > the expressions in Nixpkgs would look exactly like they do today, i.e. > they download a release tarball and build it. The binutils release.nix > file would then customize those expressions with overrideDerivation or > some other appropriate mechanism to build developer versions instead, > i.e. by switching the 'src' location to a Git repository etc. > That seems backwards. The upstream project would then depend on nixpkgs. -Colin
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