What do you mean by upgrading packer itself? If I just bump the packer reference in deps.nix, that cannot update the rest of the dependencies (they are part of the expression, so they need to be evaluated before building). Am I misunderstanding your suggestion?
On 11 May 2016 at 09:49, zimbatm <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you try just upgrading packer itself? I believe those dependencies are > included during the build now > > > On Wed, 11 May 2016 08:39 Samuel, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I took a brief look into upgrading packer in nixpkgs, but it seems >> that it has a long list of hardcoded dependencies >> >> (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/tools/packer/deps.nix). >> Is there any automation to bump those or is it a manual process? >> >> In the meanwhile I've written an expression that downloads the >> official binaries: >> >> >> https://github.com/samuelrivas/monorepo/blob/packer/nix/pkgs/development/tools/packer/default.nix >> >> But I assume that's not a change that I should pull request. Just let >> me know otherwise. >> >> Best >> -- >> Samuel >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev -- Samuel _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
