On 17 February 2013 13:57, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <vi...@viric.name> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:32:41PM +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> I have bumped the file program from 5.04 to 5.12 in my own nixpkgs >> repo. It built just fine but now I wonder if any other packages may >> depend on it and potentially break. I guess the file utility is pretty >> stable, but I'd like to know, in general, how to test that the >> dependent packages also build. Is there a command to find reverse >> dependencies for a package? >> >> Is it ok to send pull request when only the bumped program has been >> build tested? > > Ha, if you knew how we commit things! Fortunately, most errors on update > happen > at build time, and this means that 1) it will be detected by hydra, and 2) > people won't get a broken system, because the profiles won't switch.
Ok, then I'll send the pull request and let hydra catch any build trouble further up the dependency chain :-) Thanks. Best regards, Bjørn Forsman _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev