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).
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.
This involved fixing some buildInputs/buildNativeInputs in acl/attr,
and adding a libiconv in some places.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=20510
exists. There is a newer version on the server, but it cannot be
downloaded, apparently because of misconfigured permissions.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=13995
URLs to http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs. With content-addressable
mirror support (r9190, NIXPKGS-70) this is no longer necessary:
fetchurl will try to download from that location automatically. So
we can keep the original URLs.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9192
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