[Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

Luca Bruno lethalman88 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 18:07:58 CEST 2014


In the meanwhile I've merged system.replaceRuntimeDependencies. Here's some
docs: https://nixos.org/wiki/Security_Updates


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 06/06/14 13:57, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
> > So server systems need to start following a channel that does not run
> > lengthy tests?
>
> The NixOS system tests actually aren't very lengthy (though they do suffer
> from
> non-deterministic failures). It's more the latency of having to wait for
> 20,000
> package builds.
>
> Obviously, a better solution would be to:
>
> * Throw more hardware at the problem.
>
> * Start mirroring NARs to cache.nixos.org before the jobset eval has
> finished
> building.
>
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