[Nix-dev] Bad bash in NixOS?

Malcolm Matalka mmatalka at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 13:14:55 CET 2012


How bad is this to do in my own branch?  I've only fooled with nixpkgs a bit.

/M

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> 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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