[Nix-dev] Proposal: adding fetchapt support to nixpkgs

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 11/12/2016 11:16 AM, Roger Qiu wrote:
> I think what we need is a bot that will autosubmit PRs to bump new
> versions by tracking some commonly updated widely used applications like
> chromium. This shouldn't be too difficult.

We have quite some such solutions already, e.g.
http://monitor.nixos.org/ was able to generate updating patches for many
packages (and even test the build).

But I think some human should still pre-test updates briefly (at least)
before pushing them to master.

--Vladimir


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