From e86f93eada0159d80db7b7ac880b6d94325668f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Tuegel Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 07:15:49 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] melpa-stable-packages: add instructions for updating --- .../emacs-modes/melpa-stable-packages.nix | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/melpa-stable-packages.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/melpa-stable-packages.nix index bf8df730a777..d65ce4db80ea 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/melpa-stable-packages.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/melpa-stable-packages.nix @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +/* + +# Updating + +To update the list of packages from MELPA Stable, + +1. Clone https://github.com/ttuegel/emacs2nix +2. Clone https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa +3. Run `./melpa-stable-packages.sh PATH_TO_MELPA_CLONE` from emacs2nix. + Error messages about missing versions are normal; most packages in + MELPA do not have a stable version. +4. Copy the new melpa-stable-packages.json file into Nixpkgs +5. `git commit -m "melpa-stable-packages $(date -Idate)"` + +*/ + { lib }: let