I've wrote that and nobody mentioned :( 2015-05-20 23:23 GMT+03:00 Nicolas Pierron <[email protected]>:
> Hi, > > I did that a while ago, and somebody removed them, because of the > potential noise that such branches can caused. > Then I pushed the script that I made to keep track of the channel versions. > > You can use this script in your nixpkgs working directory, run > > $ $(git rev-parse > --show-cdup)maintainers/scripts/update-channel-branches.sh > > Then you can make an alias in your .git/config: > > [alias] > fetch-channels = !sh -c \"$(git rev-parse > --show-cdup)maintainers/scripts/update-channel-branches.sh\" > > which means that you can also do, from anywhere inside your working > directory. > > $ git fetch-channels > > This will pull all the channel branches from nixos.org, and also look > for the channels that are corresponding to nixos-version, and any > channel that you have in ~/.nix-defexpr . > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Nicolas Pierron > http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Sincerely, Arseniy Seroka
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