[Nix-dev] Bad bash in NixOS?

Peter Simons simons at cryp.to
Thu Dec 6 11:10:31 CET 2012


Hi Malcolm,

 > This appears to be an acknowledged bug in bash with a patch out[1].  Is
 > this coming to NixOS?  Is it here right now and I just am not upgrading
 > properly?

updates to Bash take a while to arrive in Nixpkgs, because a change like
that trigger rebuilds of every single package that we have. I guess, the
patch will be included when the stdenv-updates branch is going to merged
the next time.

Take care,
Peter



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