[Nix-dev] mix and match

[Jakob Gillich]

> So I wouldn't generally do that on an Internet-facing system -
> security patches are not always applied to the latest stable release,
> never mind the one before that.

Please, if you see that happening, open an issue (or, even better,
submit a PR). This is definitely an area we need to improve, but usually
fixes are applied to master and stable at the same time. They even
arrive earlier in stable because unstable is often lagging behind.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016, at 10:51 AM, Cameron Turner wrote:
> On 19 March 2016 at 07:33, Moritz Angermann <moritz.angermann at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to build a nixos based on 15.09, but use gitlab
> > from master. Thus I basically want to use the 15.09
> > channel and layer gitlab[1] at 1cd99b1 and the gitlab
> > service[2] at 38579a1 at on top of it.
> 
> 
> So I wouldn't generally do that on an Internet-facing system -
> security patches are not always applied to the latest stable release,
> never mind the one before that.
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