Commits on Jul 31, 2020

1. attr: inline syscall patch …

   Unfortunately the output of git.savannah.nongnu.org changes with each
   gitweb update. This means that the current has
   “0gja54fz79a9ma6b4mprnjxq77l5yg2z9xknlwhmkcrfnam02qxp” is no longer
   correct:
   
   $ nix-prefetch-url
   https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/attr.git/patch/\?id=14adc898a36948267bfe5c63b399996879e94c98
   1g8sky52rjg9fpmrddza1af89s9qd4bzsbxqb7mc5bv8gyh10s1k
   
   Normally, we use fetchpatch to strip this out, but unfortunately attr
   cannot use fetchpatch due to being used in bootstrapping fetchurl.
   That is, it can’t use a custom postFetch since <nix/fetchurl.nix>
   doesn’t support that.
   
   To solve this problem, just inline the patch for now.

   

   matthewbauer authored and FRidh committed Jul 31, 2020
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2. treewide: add warning comment to “boot” packages …

   This adds a warning to the top of each “boot” package that reads:
   
     Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus cannot
     use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or cgit) that
     are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as files.
   
   This makes it clear to maintainer that they may need to treat this
   package a little differently than others. Importantly, we can’t use
   fetchpatch here due to using <nix/fetchurl.nix>. To avoid having stale
   hashes, we need to include patches that are subject to changing
   overtime (for instance, gitweb’s patches contain a version number at
   the bottom).

   

   matthewbauer authored and FRidh committed Jul 31, 2020
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