[Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

[Shea Levy]

How about something like http://sprunge.us/eJOD (untested)? I don't have
time to do testing right now.

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 06:21:30PM +0200, Luca Bruno wrote:
> 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.