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</section>
<section xml:id="sec-pkg-overrideDerivation">
<title>&lt;pkg&gt;.overrideDerivation</title>
<para>
The function <varname>overrideDerivation</varname> is usually available for all the
derivations in the nixpkgs expression (<varname>pkgs</varname>).
</para>
<para>
It is used to create a new derivation by overriding the attributes of
the original derivation according to the given function.
</para>
<para>
Example usage:
<programlisting>mySed = pkgs.gnused.overrideDerivation (oldAttrs: {
name = "sed-4.2.2-pre";
src = fetchurl {
url = ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.2.2-pre.tar.bz2;
sha256 = "11nq06d131y4wmf3drm0yk502d2xc6n5qy82cg88rb9nqd2lj41k";
};
patches = [];
});</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
In the above example, the name, src and patches of the derivation
will be overridden, while all other attributes will be retained from the
original derivation.
</para>
<para>
The argument <varname>oldAttrs</varname> is used to refer to the attribute set of
the original derivation.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-lib-makeOverridable">
<title>lib.makeOverridable</title>