What is the reasoning to have these in a separate repository? What do you think about adding tags like I proposed?
On Tue, May 19 2015, Domen Kožar wrote: > 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 >> >> -- Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083
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