[Nix-dev] Git branches to track nix channels

[Florian Friesdorf]

There is also a thread mentioning contribution from march:
"Some bug tracker experience and RFC on improvements"

On Fri, May 22 2015, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> Hi Arseniy,
>
> On Tue, May 19 2015, Arseniy Seroka wrote:
>> We have this.
>> Read about it in a "making patches" section [1]
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/jagajaga/nixpkgs/blob/addition/contributing/CONTRIBUTING.md
>
> what's the status of that document?
>
> We also have: https://nixos.org/wiki/Contributing
>
> Is your page adding information on top of the wiki page? If yes, could
> you adjust it to make use of the nixpkgs-channels repo?
>
> Do you see a need for a CONTRIBUTING.md in nixpkgs (instead of the wiki page)?
> What do you think about a link from README.md to the Contributing wiki
> page?
>
> I'm a fan of having things in one place and would welcome a
> CONTRIBUTING.md instead of the wiki page.
>
> regards
> Florian
>
>> On 19 May 2015 12:15:00 Florian Friesdorf <flo at chaoflow.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> nix channels are series of snapshots of nixpkgs that were succesfully
>>> build by hydra and we subscribe and update them via nix-channel - for
>>> users of nixpkgs this is great!
>>>
>>> As maintainers of nixpkgs and users who keep custom patches, we also
>>> have one or more local checkouts of git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git.
>>>
>>> It would be great if channel information would be available via git as
>>> well:
>>>
>>> - one branch per channel, git reset --hard to the latest successfully
>>>   build nixpkgs in this channel
>>>
>>> - tags (<channel-name>-<datetime>) for each successful channel build.
>>>
>>> This would enable us to base local customizations of nixpkgs on-top of
>>> successful hydra builds and therefore getting as much binary package
>>> support as possible, and would remove the need to additionally maintain
>>> channels with nix-channel.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> florian
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