[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r26983 - nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/notmuch
Ludovic Courtès
ludo at gnu.org
Wed Apr 27 11:15:45 CEST 2011
Hi Florian,
Florian Friesdorf <flo at chaoflow.net> writes:
> notmuch: -inheritable-tags-hack +atomic-new
[...]
> stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
> - name = "notmuch-0.5-cfl8";
> + name = "notmuch-0.5-nixos1";
>
> src = fetchgit {
> url = "git://github.com/chaoflow/notmuch";
> - rev = "cfl8";
> - sha256 = "ee39cd0b48511468f569220909ed46966f10f14ad118f2388843b823712b0333";
> + rev = "nixos1";
> + sha256 = "979bf154c05b1560ac95ec29c55a221960cba65073fdf5cb1d00312dd9ecfb57";
> };
Is there any specific reason for using a Git snapshot?
Packages in Nixpkgs should use a published tarball, so users know what
version of the package they use, which allows them to provide useful bug
reports upstream, etc.
If you really need the latest & greatest, what about adding a
‘notmuchUnstable’ (or similar) derivation alongside the latest stable
release?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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