[Nix-dev] Auto-updating packages (was: SVN commit: nix - 22121 - raskin - nixpkgs/trunk/maintainers/docs)

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 06/03/2010 01:31 PM, Michael Raskin wrote:

> +Semi-automatic source information updating using "update-upstream-data.sh" script and "src-{,info-}for-*.nix"

I'm actually not very happy about this src-*-for-default.nix stuff since it adds
a great deal of clutter to each package (i.e. two extra Nix expressions for each
package).  I would prefer having this information *in* the package expression
itself, and have the updater work "in place".  This is basically what Ludo's
GNUpdate [1] does, but it should be generalised to support non-GNU packages

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/nix-dev@cs.uu.nl/msg03825.html

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