README.md

nixpkgs-update

Scripts to try to update nixpkgs packages. Uses hub to automatically make PRs.

Instructions

1. Clone this repo and build the tool:

   git clone https://github.com/ryantm/nixpkgs-update && cd nixpkgs-update
   nix run nixpkgs.cabal2nix -c cabal2nix --shell --hpack . > shell.nix && nix-build shell.nix
   

2. Get a list of oudated packages and place them in a packages-to-update.txt file in the root directory of this repository.

   git clone https://github.com/ryantm/repology-api.git && cd repology-api
   nix run nixpkgs.cabal2nix -c cabal2nix --shell --hpack . > shell.nix && nix-build shell.nix && result/bin/repology-api > ../packages-to-update.txt
   

3. Return back cd .. and run the tool nix run -f '<nixpkgs>' gitAndTools.hub gist jq tree -c result/bin/nixpkgs-update --update

Prior work

• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/common-updater/scripts/update-source-version
• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/build-support/upstream-updater