docs: use overrideAttrs instead of overrideDerivation

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Aneesh Agrawal
2016-10-30 14:34:40 -04:00
parent 3cb116f708
commit 3d99eea852
3 changed files with 18 additions and 19 deletions
@@ -42,29 +42,30 @@ construction, so without them,
elements.)</para>
<para>Even greater customisation is possible using the function
<varname>overrideDerivation</varname>. While the
<varname>overrideAttrs</varname>. While the
<varname>override</varname> mechanism above overrides the arguments of
a package function, <varname>overrideDerivation</varname> allows
changing the <emphasis>result</emphasis> of the function. This
a package function, <varname>overrideAttrs</varname> allows
changing the <emphasis>attributes</emphasis> of the function. This
permits changing any aspect of the package, such as the source code.
For instance, if you want to override the source code of Emacs, you
can say:
<programlisting>
environment.systemPackages =
[ (pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation pkgs.emacs (attrs: {
name = "emacs-25.0-pre";
src = /path/to/my/emacs/tree;
}))
];
environment.systemPackages = [
(pkgs.emacs.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
name = "emacs-25.0-pre";
src = /path/to/my/emacs/tree;
}))
];
</programlisting>
Here, <varname>overrideDerivation</varname> takes the Nix derivation
Here, <varname>overrideAttrs</varname> takes the Nix derivation
specified by <varname>pkgs.emacs</varname> and produces a new
derivation in which the originals <literal>name</literal> and
<literal>src</literal> attribute have been replaced by the given
values. The original attributes are accessible via
<varname>attrs</varname>.</para>
values by re-calling <literal>stdenv.mkDerivation</literal>.
The original attributes are accessible via the function argument,
which is conventionally named <varname>oldAttrs</varname>.</para>
<para>The overrides shown above are not global. They do not affect
the original package; other packages in Nixpkgs continue to depend on