[Nix-dev] monitor.nixos.org

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 28 November 2016 at 14:18, Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:
> On 16-11-12 06:39pm, Rok Garbas wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Daniel Frank
>> I wrote recently[1] how we tackle this problem at RelEng team at
>> Mozilla. I'm slowly moving all my nix projects to do the same. I will
>> also do the same for the packages I manage in nixpkgs at least that is
>> what I will write to Santa this year, to give me more time to play
>> work on nixpkgs :)
>>
>>
>> [1] https://garbas.si/2016/updating-your-nix-sources.html
>
> So you had a very similar idea about update scripts.
>
> We should chat about that; I think there should be a system
> in place for derivations to specify how the next version can
> be found and if possible how to automatically update the version
> tags & hashes.
>
> Those can obviously not be executed by nix itself, but by other
> systems like the nixos monitor.

My wish is for Nix to adopt Guix interface for updating package sources:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Invoking-guix-refresh

- Bjørn