Re: [Nix-dev] What is a default.upstream file?

2015-08-02 Thread James Cook
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 wrote: > I think it's used by this tooling here: > https://g

Re: [Nix-dev] What is a default.upstream file?

2015-07-28 Thread zimbatm
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

[Nix-dev] What is a default.upstream file?

2015-07-27 Thread James Cook
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 ___