Re: [Nix-dev] A suggestion of Nixpkgs contributing workflow - help and opinions needed

I would say it depends on what are you planning to do with your packages. If you are planning to push them to upstream, that's the good way IMHO. In the other case I would create custom packages in ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix (and friends) or custom channel so your packages could be developed

Re: [Nix-dev] A suggestion of Nixpkgs contributing workflow - help and opinions needed

On 04/10/2016 08:51 PM, Anderson Torres wrote: > My question is: how can I "update" Current if I update Nixos locally, > AND propagate the update to the derived branches? You might use topgit workflow. It's quite a nice tool to develop multiple features at once that can *depend* on each other.

[Nix-dev] A suggestion of Nixpkgs contributing workflow - help and opinions needed

Hello, Nixers! I am developing a very particular style of workflow for Nixpkgs. I will describe it here: 0 - Choose a package to port for Nixpkgs - say, higan. 1 - Find the current release of your locally installed NixOS: $ nixos-version 16.09pre79453.32b7b00 (Flounder) 2 -