nixpkgs-update/README.md
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# nixpkgs-update
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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 `result/bin/nix-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