[Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

[Aristid Breitkreuz]

I believe that is a separate delay. Both exist
Am 06.06.2014 06:49 schrieb "Michael Raskin" <7c6f434c at mail.ru>:

> >Note that we're currently not just waiting for Hydra, but also for the
> >delayed appearance on the official cache.nixos.org, which AFAIK can
> >take something like a day.
>
> As far as I understand, this delay is the delay of Hydra building the
> entire channel. I.e. fresh Nginx will not go to the cache until
> LibreOffice in the same channel is also rebuilt.
>
> >2014-06-05 22:50 GMT+02:00 Ertugrul Söylemez <ertesx at gmx.de>:
> >> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 21:01:59 +0100
> >> Shell Turner <cam.turn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> So is the argument that it should be possible to update the channel
> >>> with the new package definition before the binary cache has finished
> >>> building, thus letting people rebuild their systems locally if need
> >>> be? That seems reasonable.
> >>
> >> I think a nice solution would be to add build priorities to Hydra.
>  When a security update is required quickly, then update the OpenSSL
> expression, assign a high build priority to OpenSSL and the common server
> packages and let Hydra do the building.  Most people will build on weaker
> machines, so I think that "waiting for Hydra" is the way to go, even when
> you can't watch the actual build process and thus feel that nothing is
> happening.
> >>
> >> All we need is to make sure that Hydra builds those quickly enough.
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