[Nix-dev] test version bumps before sending pull request

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 17 February 2013 13:57, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:32:41PM +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
>> I have bumped the file program from 5.04 to 5.12 in my own nixpkgs
>> repo. It built just fine but now I wonder if any other packages may
>> depend on it and potentially break. I guess the file utility is pretty
>> stable, but I'd like to know, in general, how to test that the
>> dependent packages also build. Is there a command to find reverse
>> dependencies for a package?
>>
>> Is it ok to send pull request when only the bumped program has been
>> build tested?
>
> Ha, if you knew how we commit things! Fortunately, most errors on update happen
> at build time, and this means that 1) it will be detected by hydra, and 2)
> people won't get a broken system, because the profiles won't switch.

Ok, then I'll send the pull request and let hydra catch any build
trouble further up the dependency chain :-)

Thanks.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman