From d54bdf5504cfe43937e4cfc1f3e03ad621f74b87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silvan Mosberger <infinisil@icloud.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 00:13:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] lib/makeOverridable: Propagate function arguments to override
 functions

This allows querying the arguments you can .override:

  nix-repl> lib.functionArgs pkgs.hello.override
  { fetchurl = false; stdenv = false; }
---
 lib/customisation.nix | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/customisation.nix b/lib/customisation.nix
index 21bab1ab4bcd..09d7fbf74b0f 100644
--- a/lib/customisation.nix
+++ b/lib/customisation.nix
@@ -67,12 +67,14 @@ rec {
   makeOverridable = f: origArgs:
     let
       ff = f origArgs;
+      # Creates a functor with the same arguments as f
+      copyArgs = g: lib.setFunctionArgs g (lib.functionArgs f);
       overrideWith = newArgs: origArgs // (if lib.isFunction newArgs then newArgs origArgs else newArgs);
 
       # Re-call the function but with different arguments
-      overrideArgs = newArgs: makeOverridable f (overrideWith newArgs);
+      overrideArgs = copyArgs (newArgs: makeOverridable f (overrideWith newArgs));
       # Change the result of the function call by applying g to it
-      overrideResult = g: makeOverridable (args: g (f args)) origArgs;
+      overrideResult = g: makeOverridable (copyArgs (args: g (f args))) origArgs;
     in
       if builtins.isAttrs ff then (ff // {
         override = overrideArgs;