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-rw-r--r--nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix
index 36b6bea61cd4..85856fc366d9 100644
--- a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix
+++ b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
   but the exact set depends on the library version and the configuration.
 */
 
+# 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, lib
 , buildPackages
 , fetchurl