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authorJohn Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>2023-03-30 11:06:52 -0400
committerJohn Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems>2023-04-07 08:34:58 -0400
commitb200784cec056da53378eb043cae4fad188e4e6f (patch)
tree1e9dcaf438a6b7f7348d811b9ec90a47f7befc14 /src/nix/show-derivation.md
parentfe9cbe838c3d59e2768b92d8cab0e5a2674f5bfb (diff)
Include the name in the JSON for derivations
This is non-breaking change in the to-JSON direction. This *is* a breaking change in the from-JSON direction, but we don't care, as that is brand new in this PR. `nix show-derivation --help` currently has the sole public documentation of this format, it is updated accordingly.
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@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ The JSON output is a JSON object whose keys are the store paths of the
derivations, and whose values are a JSON object with the following
fields:
+* `name`: The name of the derivation. This is used when calculating the
+ store paths of the derivation's outputs.
+
* `outputs`: Information about the output paths of the
derivation. This is a JSON object with one member per output, where
the key is the output name and the value is a JSON object with these