`stripHash` documentation states that it prints out the stripped name to
the stdout, but the function stored the value in `strippedName`
instead.
Basically all usages did something like
`$(stripHash $foo | echo $strippedName)` which is just braindamaged.
Fixed the implementation and all invocations.
They now go to devman, devdoc, or $outputMan, in that order. This is
to prevent cases such as the man-pages package quietly losing its
section 3 pages.
This one was already merged into release-16.09, so let's not have the
stable branch is ahead of master and confuse things. In addition to
that, currently we have an odd situation that master has less things
actually finished building than in staging.
Conflicts:
pkgs/data/documentation/man-pages/default.nix
This was one of the ways to build packages, we are trying
hard to minimize different ways so it's easier for newcomers
to learn only one way.
This also:
- removes texLive (old), fixes #14807
- removed upstream-updater, if that code is still used it should be in
separate repo
- changes a few packages like gitit/mit-scheme to use new texlive
After #16017 there were a lot
of comments saying that `nix` would be better than `JSON`
for Go packages dependency sets.
As said in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/16017#issuecomment-229624046
> Because of the content-addressable store, if two programs have the
> same dependency it will already result in the same derivation in
> the
> store. Git also has compression in the pack files so it won't make
> much difference to duplicate the dependencies on disk. And finally
> most users will just use the binary builds so it won't make any
> differences to them.
This PR removes `libs.json` file and puts all package dependencies in
theirs `deps.json`.
* Improve overrideDerivation docs.
Explain how antiquotation in a package's attribute behaves when overriding the package.
* Edit antiquotation note. Fix closing-element.
stripHash uses a global variable to communicate it's computation
results, but it's not necessary. You can just pipe to stdout in a
subshell. A function mostly behaves like just another command.
baseHash() also introduces a suffix-stripping capability since it's
something the users of the function tend to use.
