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