[Nix-dev] Improving security updates

Kirill Elagin kirelagin at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 13:44:48 CEST 2015


On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:57 AM Jonathan Glines <auntieneo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2015/04/10 15:54 "Bjørn Forsman" <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>:
>
>
> >
> > On 10 April 2015 at 23:35, Jonathan Glines <auntieneo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I think it would be useful to have a "bump bot" for nixpkgs that could
> > > scan meta data and catalog exactly which packages are out of date. The
> > > bot would pull data from multiple sources (package mirrors, other
> > > distros, security feeds) to warn about major version bumps and
> > > security advisories. Maintainers could then use output from the bot to
> > > see at a glance which of their packages are out of date. Maybe even
> > > with a web interface with graphs and charts to compare against other
> > > Linux distros and upstream. Distrowatch already does something similar
> > > for select few important packages.
> >
> > Sounds very much like the Nixpkgs Monitor :-)
>
> Wow, that's amazing. How did you set that up so quickly? ;)
>
The Monitor has been there for a year or so.

> > http://monitor.nixos.org/
> >
> > - Bjørn
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