[Nix-dev] Re: stdenv rebuild warning

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Peter Simons wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> on Friday, August 6th I'll commit two small patches to 'trunk' that modify
> pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh (see <87wrs8vuoh.fsf at write-only.cryp.to> for
> further details). The effect is going to be a re-build of all packages
> that depends on stdenv, which is pretty much everything. If you'd like to
> avoid doing that re-build, you might want to wait a day before updating
> your installation to make sure that Hydra is finished re-building the
> binary packages. Or, to put it differently, if you have urgent updates to
> perform on your system, it might be a good idea to do them now.
AFAIK, the policy for stdenv updates is to commit them into stdenv-updates 
branch, test, then merge stdenv-updates into trunk.

Why commiting this to trunk is so important for you? Hydra builds stdenv-
updates as well, so you can commit it to stdenv-updates, and switch to this 
branch.
> 
> Take care,
> Peter