Apologies if this is another dumb question, but I think I don't know
the proper terms to google.
I'm writing an expression (in nixpkgs) for geonetwork-opensource. This
is now working as a maven build. The thing I'm putting in $out, for
the moment, is the maven repository. This contains all of the
stdenv.mkDerivation { .. } :
{
...
warfile = ${out}/repository/big/fat/path/geonetwork-opensource-2.6.4.war
...
}
You have to understand that you can't pass out as input to the same
derivation. Why?
All inputs yield a hash, the nix/store/ hash.
Let's take a very simple example: