Commit 8f98a6d3 authored by aszlig's avatar aszlig Committed by sternenseemann
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check-meta: Add isHydraChannel 

This is needed in order to mark a certain derivation containing a Nix
expression tarball to Hydra so that it is recognised as a channel.

When I first got an evaluation error due to using this meta attribute, I
was under the impression that nobody outside of Vuizvui[1] is using this
feature and that we don't have any occurrence of isHydraChannel in
Nixpkgs.

However, when working around[2] the issue I assumed that it's not
something that should be included in Nixpkgs because we're not using it
there.

It turned out that my assumption was wrong and we *do* use the attribute
in Nixpkgs, namely via releaseTools.channel, which is similar to what
we're doing in Vuizvui.

Since we already include a bunch of undocumented attributes in
metaTypes, it only makes sense to add isHydraChannel as well since it's
actually documented in the Hydra documentation[3].

[1]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui
[2]: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/commit/e0685e81b3fdc43a272f0
[3]: https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/blob/53335323ae79ca1a42643f58e520b376898ce641/doc/manual/src/jobs.md#meta-fields



Signed-off-by: default avataraszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
parent b6fe86fd

pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix

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    });

    timeout = int;



    # Needed for Hydra to expose channel tarballs:

    # https://github.com/NixOS/hydra/blob/53335323ae79ca1a42643f58e520b376898ce641/doc/manual/src/jobs.md#meta-fields

    isHydraChannel = bool;



    # Weirder stuff that doesn't appear in the documentation?

    maxSilent = int;

    knownVulnerabilities = listOf str;