Hi all, I've been nixing for 2 weeks now, and of course I ran into missing/outdated packages, but the overall impression I get from nixos is superb, so I didn't mind to get my hands dirty and fix stuff I needed.
I cloned nixos and nixpkgs into git repositories (and keep them up-to-date using git svn) so I could do my own upgrades and tweaks. Now what's the procedure for contributing? And what's the job for maintainers? My changes are mostly just changing a version number and checksum, with small tweaks for dependencies/patches/configure flags. Arch linux allows you to flag packages out-of-date on their website, but as the nix maintainers team seems a lot smaller, I don't think nagging them about everything that's slightly outdated is a nice thing to do. So should I just send patches to them directly for stuff I upgrade? Or is there a more general place to submit patches to? Anyway, for now, my changes are available at https://github.com/bluescreen303/nixpkgs/commits/master Feel free to apply them to the official repo. Thanks, Mathijs _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
