[Nix-dev] Auto package updating script

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 02/10/2011 12:17 AM, Marc Weber wrote:

> Excerpts from Tobias Hunger's message of Wed Feb 09 23:51:43 +0100 2011:
>> So what do you guys think?
> 
> We need such a tool. We already have two: the one written by Michael
> Raskin and my nix-repository-manager

Don't forget Ludo's updater for GNU packages, which I think is the cleanest
approach:

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

We should just generalise it to handle other packages as well, for instance, by
having some meta-attributes that specify where to look for updates.

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