Using a specific package version
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Description
There are various ways to accomplish this laid out in this comment: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-search/issues/636#issuecomment-1477885841
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the approaches described in the linked NixOS/nixos-search issue comment. Determine which way of using a specific package version belongs in the nix.dev documentation and where it should be added. Done means the selected approach is documented clearly and the relevant documentation build or checks pass.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100