[Nix-dev] Hydra and security updates

[Domen Kožar]

> I see two ways of doing this: either having hydra somehow handle with
> special care security updates (hard to do)

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/10851

> , or having master and stable branches *always* build.

For that we'd need to have infrastructure that builds PRs and reports
status on github.

I think that's the right solution, but it does involve work and Hydra
improvements :)

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:53 PM, <joachifm at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017, at 23:32, Leo Gaspard wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > [ ... ]
>
> I think this is relevant to your interests:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/10851
>
> On a side note, I don't know why anybody would actually run
> nixos-unstable; it gets stuck for long periods of time quite often ... I
> think sticking to the latest release channel or using the -small variant
> is better, depending on whether you want/need the latest bugs.
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