Nixpkgs/Update Scripts

Update Scripts can be added to packages via setting, passthru.updateScript which is then executed by r-ryantm to create an updated pull request or can be manually invoked via nix-shell maintainers/scripts/update.nix --argstr package <packagename>.

Update Scripts

List of prepackaged update scripts.

Git Updater

Updates to the latest git tag.

passthru.updateScript = gitUpdater {
  ignoredVersions = ""; # Optional - (grep -E) Filter to ignore versions
  allowedVersions = ""; # Optional - (grep -E) Filter to ignore versions
  rev-prefix = "v";     # Optional - set if tags have a prefix before the version number
  odd-unstable = false; # Optional - Ignore odd numberd versions
  patchlevel-unstable = false; # Optional - Ignore patchlevel versions
  url = null;           #  Optional - Set this to a git url when the src is not a git repo
};

Source: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/common-updater/git-updater.nix

Unstable Git Updater

Updates to the latest git tag

passthru.updateScript = unstableGitUpdater {
  branch = null; # Optional - Which branch should be updated from
  url = null; # Optional - The git url, if empty it will be set to src.gitRepoUrl
  tagPrefix = "v"; # Optional - strip this prefix from a tag name
  hardcodeZeroVersion = false; # Optional - Use a made-up version "0" instead of latest tag. Use when the project's tagging system is incompatible with what we expect from versions
  tagFormat = "*"; # Optional - A `git describe --tags --match '<format>'` pattern that tags must match to be considered
  tagConverter = null; # Optional - command to convert more complex tag formats. It receives the git tag via stdin and should convert it into x.y.z format to stdout. Example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/ch/chirp/package.nix#L41-L45
  shallowClone = true; # Optional - do not perform a complete clone
};

Source: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/common-updater/unstable-updater.nix

nix-update by Mic92

nix-update works for a range of different sources and will do the right thing most of the time.

passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script { };

Additional Resources

• Contributing to nixpkgs - Automatic Package Updates (github.com/nixos/nixpkgs)