- Clone the
nix-pkgs
repository (This would take more than a Gigabit of data/space) and in a new branch perform the below changes. - For computing the hash, use:
nix-hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url --unpack <url.tar.gz>) --extra-experimental-features nix-command
- For testing the changes, perform a build using
nix-build -A <package>
.
Now, push the changes along with release notes URL in the commit message following the suggested conventions.