[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 16859 - raskin - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: build-support/builder-defs build-support/upstream-updater development/libraries development/libraries/geoip tools/admin tools/admin/webdruid top-level

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> BTW, it seems that a lot of auto-update checking can be done globally.  For
> instance, you can just scan Nixpkgs for any fetchurl call with a
> mirror://sourceforge/<projectname>/<package>.tar... URL and see if Sourceforge
> has a newer version of <package>.  No need to specify a
> "src-info-for-default.nix" for each package.

Agreed (same for GNU projects).

Thanks,
Ludo'.