[Nix-dev] Improving security updates

[Jonathan Glines]

2015/04/10 15:54 "Bjørn Forsman" <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>:
>
> On 10 April 2015 at 23:35, Jonathan Glines <auntieneo at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > I think it would be useful to have a "bump bot" for nixpkgs that could
> > scan meta data and catalog exactly which packages are out of date. The
> > bot would pull data from multiple sources (package mirrors, other
> > distros, security feeds) to warn about major version bumps and
> > security advisories. Maintainers could then use output from the bot to
> > see at a glance which of their packages are out of date. Maybe even
> > with a web interface with graphs and charts to compare against other
> > Linux distros and upstream. Distrowatch already does something similar
> > for select few important packages.
>
> Sounds very much like the Nixpkgs Monitor :-)

Wow, that's amazing. How did you set that up so quickly? ;)

> http://monitor.nixos.org/
>
> - Bjørn
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