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The Coq derivation is overridable through the `coq.override overrides`, where overrides is an attribute set which contains the arguments to override. We recommend overriding either of the following
* `version` (optional, defaults to the latest version of Coq selected for nixpkgs, see `pkgs/top-level/coq-packages` to witness this choice), which follows the conventions explained in the `coqPackages` section below,
* `customOCamlPackage` (optional, defaults to `null`, which lets Coq choose a version automatically), which can be set to any of the ocaml packages attribute of `ocaml-ng` (such as `ocaml-ng.ocamlPackages_4_10` which is the default for Coq 8.11 for example).
* `customOCamlPackages` (optional, defaults to `null`, which lets Coq choose a version automatically), which can be set to any of the ocaml packages attribute of `ocaml-ng` (such as `ocaml-ng.ocamlPackages_4_10` which is the default for Coq 8.11 for example).
* `coq-version` (optional, defaults to the short version e.g. "8.10"), is a version number of the form "x.y" that indicates which Coq's version build behavior to mimic when using a source which is not a release. E.g. `coq.override { version = "d370a9d1328a4e1cdb9d02ee032f605a9d94ec7a"; coq-version = "8.10"; }`.
The associated package set can be optained using `mkCoqPackages coq`, where `coq` is the `coq` derivation to use.
## Coq packages attribute sets: `coqPackages` {#coq-packages-attribute-sets-coqpackages}
The recommended way of defining a derivation for a Coq library, is to use the `coqPackages.mkCoqDerivation` function, which is essentially a specialization of `mkDerivation` taking into account most of the specifics of Coq libraries. The following attributes are supported: