[Nix-dev] Best practice to keep a nixos system updated

[Marco Maggesi]

Hi,

I use the following heuristics to keep my computer up to date:

1. go to the hydra queue (http://hydra.nixos.org/queue);
2. if there are jobs running, wait a few hours;
3. otherwise, run immediately

nixos-checkout; nixos-rebuild boot; nix-env --always -u \*

and hope that the compilation of all the packages you need succeeded.

Do I miss something?
Is this the better we can do for now?
If I understand correctly, we expect to improve the situation once the
nixpkgs/nixos repository will be migrated on git?  Right?

Thanks,
Marco