[Nix-dev] upgrading packer

[zimbatm]

Sorry, I made it sound more easy that it was. For some reason I thought
they had vendored all the dependencies.

I took a stab at the update yesterday and here is the PR:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/15426/files

What I had to do was checkout packer at the specific tag, run `godep
restore` and then `go2nix save`. Copy the generated `default.nix` to
overwrite the `deps.nix` file. And then the tricky part was to get packer
to build properly using all of this since they have a custom build pipeline.

On Thu, 12 May 2016 at 17:36 Samuel <samuelrivas at gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you mean by upgrading packer itself? If I just bump the packer
> reference in deps.nix, that cannot update the rest of the dependencies
> (they are part of the expression, so they need to be evaluated before
> building). Am I misunderstanding your suggestion?
>
>
> On 11 May 2016 at 09:49, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
> > Did you try just upgrading packer itself? I believe those dependencies
> are
> > included during the build now
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 11 May 2016 08:39 Samuel, <samuelrivas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I took a brief look into upgrading packer in nixpkgs, but it seems
> >> that it has a long list of hardcoded dependencies
> >>
> >> (
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/tools/packer/deps.nix
> ).
> >> Is there any automation to bump those or is it a manual process?
> >>
> >> In the meanwhile I've written an expression that downloads the
> >> official binaries:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/samuelrivas/monorepo/blob/packer/nix/pkgs/development/tools/packer/default.nix
> >>
> >> But I assume that's not a change that I should pull request. Just let
> >> me know otherwise.
> >>
> >> Best
> >> --
> >> Samuel
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>
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> Samuel
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