> Are we always updating to the latest version? For example on a release > branch we might want to pin to a major.minor if the project follows semver, > but maybe on master we always want the latest version. >
The maintainer who writes nix expression for the package also decides which version update script will follow. > How do we iterate over all the packages? Do we regularly run all the update > scripts? Are the updates directly pushed to master or are new PR > automatically created? > Initially updates will happen as now, done manually by the maintainers. The only this that changes is that maintainers will be asked/required to write an update script that and to use that update script. Later we can see how we can hook this script in Hydra/CI, but we first need to have some update scripts :) > Let's say the convention is that derivations exposes an "updater" passthru. > Does it mean that all the derivations need to be updated or can we magically > support all github projects? > I wouldn't magically support all github projects, but rather provide update script one by one. As we go along adding an update which follow a branch might look like: https://github.com/mozilla-releng/services/blob/master/nix/tools/default.nix#L10 > I still think that some of this need to be tried out so we might as well > adopt garbas' approach for now but it would be nice to have a clearer > picture as well. > The PR I created (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20844) leaves all the door open for improvement, but brings us just a step closer to the future where we could easily manage 1000x more packages then we do now. -- Rok _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
