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doc: modernize meta attributes documentation

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Domen Kožar 2014-07-27 13:52:11 +02:00
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@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ meta = {
It is fully customizable.
'';
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/;
license = "GPLv3+";
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.eelco ];
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
};
</programlisting>
@ -32,15 +34,33 @@ command-line using <command>nix-env</command>:
<screen>
$ nix-env -qa hello --meta --xml
&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
&lt;items>
&lt;item attrPath="hello" name="hello-2.3" system="i686-linux">
&lt;meta name="description" value="A program that produces a familiar, friendly greeting" />
&lt;meta name="homepage" value="http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/" />
&lt;meta name="license" value="GPLv3+" />
&lt;meta name="longDescription" value="GNU Hello is a program that prints &amp;quot;Hello, world!&amp;quot; when you run it.&amp;#xA;It is fully customizable.&amp;#xA;" />
&lt;/item>
&lt;/items>
&lt;?xml version=&apos;1.0&apos; encoding=&apos;utf-8&apos;?&gt;
&lt;items&gt;
&lt;item attrPath=&quot;nixos.pkgs.hello&quot; name=&quot;hello-2.9&quot; system=&quot;x86_64-linux&quot;&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;description&quot; type=&quot;string&quot; value=&quot;A program that produces a familiar, friendly greeting&quot; /&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;homepage&quot; type=&quot;string&quot; value=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/&quot; /&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;license&quot; type=&quot;string&quot; value=&quot;GPLv3+&quot; /&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;longDescription&quot; type=&quot;string&quot; value=&quot;GNU Hello is a program that prints &amp;quot;Hello, world!&amp;quot; when you run it.&amp;#xA;It is fully customizable.&amp;#xA;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;maintainers&quot; type=&quot;strings&quot;&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;Ludovic Courtès &amp;lt;ludo@gnu.org&amp;gt;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/meta&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;platforms&quot; type=&quot;strings&quot;&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;i686-linux&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;x86_64-linux&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;armv5tel-linux&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;armv7l-linux&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;mips64el-linux&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;x86_64-darwin&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;i686-cygwin&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;i686-freebsd&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;x86_64-freebsd&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;i686-openbsd&quot; /&gt;
&lt;string value=&quot;x86_64-openbsd&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/meta&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;position&quot; type=&quot;string&quot; value=&quot;/nix/store/cn8zjjdd9kvmp1p5d21h7ya0cr1jhkk3-nixos-14.10pre44264.12f06b3/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/ex-2/default.nix:14&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/item&gt;
&lt;/items&gt;
</screen>
<command>nix-env</command> knows about the
@ -92,20 +112,22 @@ interpretation:</para>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>license</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The license for the package. See below for the
allowed values.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The license for the package. One from attribute set defined in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/lib/licenses.nix">
<filename>nixpkgs/lib/licenses.nix</filename></link>.
Example:
<literal>stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>maintainers</varname></term>
<listitem><para>A list of names and e-mail addresses of the
maintainers of this Nix expression, e.g. <literal>["Alice
&lt;alice@example.org>" "Bob &lt;bob@example.com>"]</literal>. If
you are the maintainer of multiple packages, you may want to add
maintainers of this Nix expression. If
you would like to be a maintainer of a package, you may want to add
yourself to <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix"><filename>pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix</filename></link>
and write something like <literal>[stdenv.lib.maintainers.alice
stdenv.lib.maintainers.bob]</literal>.</para></listitem>
xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix"><filename>nixpkgs/lib/maintainers.nix</filename></link>
and write something like <literal>[ stdenv.lib.maintainers.alice
stdenv.lib.maintainers.bob ]</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@ -121,29 +143,23 @@ interpretation:</para>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>platforms</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The list of Nix platform types on which the
package is supported. If this attribute is set, the package will
refuse to build, and won’t show up in <literal>nix-env
-qa</literal> output, on any platform not listed
here. An example is:
package is supported. An example is:
<programlisting>
meta.platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" "i686-linux" "x86_64-darwin" ];
</programlisting>
The set <varname>lib.platforms</varname> defines various common
lists of platforms types, so it’s more typical to write:
<programlisting>
meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux ++ stdenv.lib.platforms.darwin;
meta.platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
</programlisting>
Attribute Set <varname>stdenv.lib.platforms</varname> in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/lib/platforms.nix">
<filename>nixpkgs/lib/platforms.nix</filename></link> defines various common
lists of platforms types.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>hydraPlatforms</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The list of Nix platform types for which the Hydra
instance at <literal>hydra.nixos.org</literal> should build the
instance at <literal>hydra.nixos.org</literal> will build the
package. (Hydra is the Nix-based continuous build system.) It
defaults to the value of <varname>meta.platforms</varname>. Thus,
the only reason to set <varname>meta.hydraPlatforms</varname> is

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@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
It is fully customizable.
'';
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/;
license = "GPLv3+";
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
};