On 28 November 2016 at 14:18, Profpatsch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16-11-12 06:39pm, Rok Garbas wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Daniel Frank >> I wrote recently[1] how we tackle this problem at RelEng team at >> Mozilla. I'm slowly moving all my nix projects to do the same. I will >> also do the same for the packages I manage in nixpkgs at least that is >> what I will write to Santa this year, to give me more time to play >> work on nixpkgs :) >> >> >> [1] https://garbas.si/2016/updating-your-nix-sources.html > > So you had a very similar idea about update scripts. > > We should chat about that; I think there should be a system > in place for derivations to specify how the next version can > be found and if possible how to automatically update the version > tags & hashes. > > Those can obviously not be executed by nix itself, but by other > systems like the nixos monitor.
My wish is for Nix to adopt Guix interface for updating package sources: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Invoking-guix-refresh - Bjørn _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
