We have https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels that has branches that track latest channel updates
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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