nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/compression/gzip/default.nix
Matthew Bauer d0677e6d45 treewide: add warning comment to “boot” packages
This adds a warning to the top of each “boot” package that reads:

  Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus cannot
  use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or cgit) that
  are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as files.

This makes it clear to maintainer that they may need to treat this
package a little differently than others. Importantly, we can’t use
fetchpatch here due to using <nix/fetchurl.nix>. To avoid having stale
hashes, we need to include patches that are subject to changing
overtime (for instance, gitweb’s patches contain a version number at
the bottom).
2020-07-31 08:56:53 +02:00

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{ stdenv
, fetchurl
, xz
, writeText
}:
# Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
# cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or
# cgit) that are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as
# files.
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
pname = "gzip";
version = "1.10";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/gzip/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
sha256 = "1h6p374d3j8d4cdfydzls021xa2yby8myc0h8d6m8bc7k6ncq9c4";
};
outputs = [ "out" "man" "info" ];
enableParallelBuilding = true;
nativeBuildInputs = [ xz.bin ];
makeFlags = [ "SHELL=/bin/sh" "GREP=grep" ];
# Many gzip executables are shell scripts that depend upon other gzip
# executables being in $PATH. Rather than try to re-write all the
# internal cross-references, just add $out/bin to PATH at the top of
# all the executables that are shell scripts.
preFixup = ''
sed -i '1{;/#!\/bin\/sh/aPATH="'$out'/bin:$PATH"
}' $out/bin/*
'';
# set GZIP env variable to "-n" to stop gzip from adding timestamps
# to archive headers: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/86348
setupHook = writeText "setup-hook" ''
export GZIP="-n"
'';
meta = {
homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/";
description = "GNU zip compression program";
longDescription =
''gzip (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program written by
Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the
decompression part.
We developed this program as a replacement for compress because of
the Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm used by
compress. These patents made it impossible for us to use compress,
and we needed a replacement. The superior compression ratio of gzip
is just a bonus.
'';
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
};
}