[Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

[Luca Bruno]

On 05/06/2014 17:49, Shea Levy wrote:
> Pass in the system derivation and use nix-env --set to switch your
> system to the resultant derivation.
>
> I have used it in the past but only for short periods while waiting for
> a rebuild.
I'd like to propose a system.securityUpdates = [ pkg1 pkg2 ... ] which
will be taken in account by system.build.toplevel automatically,
so that security updates can be easily specified in configuration.nix,
instead of messing with the command line.