[Nix-dev] upgrading packer

[Samuel]

What do you mean by upgrading packer itself? If I just bump the packer
reference in deps.nix, that cannot update the rest of the dependencies
(they are part of the expression, so they need to be evaluated before
building). Am I misunderstanding your suggestion?


On 11 May 2016 at 09:49, zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:
> Did you try just upgrading packer itself? I believe those dependencies are
> included during the build now
>
>
> On Wed, 11 May 2016 08:39 Samuel, <samuelrivas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I took a brief look into upgrading packer in nixpkgs, but it seems
>> that it has a long list of hardcoded dependencies
>>
>> (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/tools/packer/deps.nix).
>> Is there any automation to bump those or is it a manual process?
>>
>> In the meanwhile I've written an expression that downloads the
>> official binaries:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/samuelrivas/monorepo/blob/packer/nix/pkgs/development/tools/packer/default.nix
>>
>> But I assume that's not a change that I should pull request. Just let
>> me know otherwise.
>>
>> Best
>> --
>> Samuel
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Samuel