Hi, nix channels are series of snapshots of nixpkgs that were succesfully build by hydra and we subscribe and update them via nix-channel - for users of nixpkgs this is great!
As maintainers of nixpkgs and users who keep custom patches, we also have one or more local checkouts of git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git. It would be great if channel information would be available via git as well: - one branch per channel, git reset --hard to the latest successfully build nixpkgs in this channel - tags (<channel-name>-<datetime>) for each successful channel build. This would enable us to base local customizations of nixpkgs on-top of successful hydra builds and therefore getting as much binary package support as possible, and would remove the need to additionally maintain channels with nix-channel. What do you think? cheers florian -- Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083
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