I think it's used by this tooling here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater/update-walker.sh#L100 It might also be related to the updateWalker meta attribute mentioned here: http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 at 07:20 James Cook <james.c...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > There are many files named default.upstream in nixpkgs. How does one use > them? > > It is clear they have something to do with automatically updating nix > expressions, but a few minutes of Googling didn't turn up a single > hint about what tool reads these files. > > James > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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