[Nix-dev] Bad bash in NixOS?

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 07:14:55AM -0500, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
> How bad is this to do in my own branch?  I've only fooled with nixpkgs a bit.

You'll loose prebuilt binaries from hydra. Other than that, all should be fine.

Remember that if that annoys you in some specific package, you can override the
bash in that package, only. Not /bin/sh though.

> 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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