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Thanks, makes sense. Let's do this!

On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, 23:39 Rok Garbas, <rok at garbas.si> wrote:

> > Are we always updating to the latest version? For example on a release
> > branch we might want to pin to a major.minor if the project follows
> semver,
> > but maybe on master we always want the latest version.
> >
>
> The maintainer who writes nix expression for the package also decides
> which version update script will follow.
>
> > How do we iterate over all the packages? Do we regularly run all the
> update
> > scripts? Are the updates directly pushed to master or are new PR
> > automatically created?
> >
>
> Initially updates will happen as now, done manually by the
> maintainers. The only this that changes is that maintainers will be
> asked/required to write an update script that and to use that update
> script.
>
> Later we can see how we can hook this script in Hydra/CI, but we first
> need to have some update scripts :)
>
>
> > Let's say the convention is that derivations exposes an "updater"
> passthru.
> > Does it mean that all the derivations need to be updated or can we
> magically
> > support all github projects?
> >
>
> I wouldn't magically support all github projects, but rather provide
> update script one by one. As we go along adding an update which follow
> a branch might look like:
>
> https://github.com/mozilla-releng/services/blob/master/nix/tools/default.nix#L10
>
> > I still think that some of this need to be tried out so we might as well
> > adopt garbas' approach for now but it would be nice to have a clearer
> > picture as well.
> >
>
> The PR I created (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/20844) leaves
> all the door open for improvement, but brings us just a step closer to
> the future where we could easily manage 1000x more packages then we do
> now.
>
>
>
> -- Rok
>
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