[Nix-dev] Re: GNUpdate, an automatic update tool for GNU packages

2010-04-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Eelco Dolstra e.dols...@tudelft.nl writes: Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] 3. Traverse that SXML tree to identify GNU packages based on the contents of ‘meta.description’ and ‘meta.homepage’. 4. For each GNU package, find out the latest release by looking for it on

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: GNUpdate, an automatic update tool for GNU packages

2010-04-13 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2010 05:18 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: In theory, yes. ‘src-info-for-default.nix’ does seem to provide all the necessary info so that’s probably a good starting point. Apparently it’s quite flexible but also slightly more verbose than

[Nix-dev] Re: GNUpdate, an automatic update tool for GNU packages

2010-04-13 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hello! * Possibly running ‘nix-build’ automatically for packages not in ‘stdenv’ and committing automatically if the build passes. I object the idea of automatic commits. Sometimes the build passes but some features do not work anymore. OTOH, it would be nice to