[Nix-dev] 6 month C4 adoption period

[obadz]

If you have expensive-to-compile stuff that hydra doesn't build, just
freeze (or upgrade quarterly for instance) the version of nixpkgs that you
use for that particular stuff. (The rest of your system can happily keep
updating at a brisker pace).


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:19 AM, stewart mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Okay, then I'm absolutely boggled as to why each and every time I
> update I have recompile rustBeta.rustc then rustUnstable.rustc.
>
> I've literally been using nix-build ... -I
> nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/
> 125ffff089b6bd360c82cf986d8cc9b17fc2e8ac.tar.gz
> for more than a month.
> That is the last working revision of Rust.
>
> I really should get sleep. I'm at my wits end.
>
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