[Nix-dev] Introducing nox and nox-review
Hello everyone. I just realized I've never properly announced nox on the mailing list, so here it comes. I'm happy to present the nox tools suite, which is a set of tools designed to improve the use of Nix and NixOS. The code can be found at https://github.com/madjar/nox, and nox is available in nixpkgs as the nox attribute. There are already two tools that should make your life easier. nox itself is a command line tool that help you search nixpkgs to install packages. It's basically a nicer version of the old nix-env -qaP | grep, with caching to make search faster, color, and a few other niceties. nox-review is a tool designed to help those who work on nixpkgs. nox-review pr PR_NUMBER downloads a pull request, merges it in master, and build every single path affected by the pull request (each package changed by the pr, and all their dependencies). This makes it easy for a reviewer to build a pull request before merging it, and allow them to make sure that nothing unexpected was broken by a pull request. nox-review wip, on the other hand, can be used to make sure the changes introduced in a nixpkgs working tree don't break anything. I hope you can make a good use of those tools, especially nox-review pr which I hope can improve the reliability of nixpkgs by making it easier to catch breakage early. Cheers -- Georges ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Introducing nox and nox-review
Hi, On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Georges Dubus georges.du...@gmail.com wrote: I just realized I've never properly announced nox on the mailing list, so here it comes. I wrote a simple nixos-update script that might also be useful to some users. Its comment is: # Update ~/nixpkgs git repository based on what is the latest nixos unstable: # - the git 'basesystem' branch is the branch always pointing to nixos unstable # - the git 'system' branch is based on 'basesystem' and adds my own stuff on top the code can be found at https://gist.github.com/DamienCassou/bce633bba3eb1dfada1f -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Introducing nox and nox-review
https://nixos.org/wiki/Howto_find_a_package_in_NixOS is the place to add a reference.. Marc Weber ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Introducing nox and nox-review
Thank you for posting this! I was not aware such utilities existed, but it will make managing pull requests much easier for me from here on out On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Damien Cassou damien.cas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Georges Dubus georges.du...@gmail.com wrote: I just realized I've never properly announced nox on the mailing list, so here it comes. I wrote a simple nixos-update script that might also be useful to some users. Its comment is: # Update ~/nixpkgs git repository based on what is the latest nixos unstable: # - the git 'basesystem' branch is the branch always pointing to nixos unstable # - the git 'system' branch is based on 'basesystem' and adds my own stuff on top the code can be found at https://gist.github.com/DamienCassou/bce633bba3eb1dfada1f -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
