Adam Dinwoodie

#NixOS / #nixpkgs questions: I'm running against nixos-unstable. Home Manager has a "news" feature that tells me when things change in ways I might care about. Does anyone have a cunning way to get notified about changes to the Nixpkgs and NixOS release notes?

I can write my own monitoring script, but if there's a way of doing this that doesn't require reinventing this particular wheel, that'd be preferable!

Mar 8 at 12:12pmWeb
Show threadThe Incredible LaserMar 8

@me_and Isn't this exactly what mkRemovedOptionModule and mkAliasOptionModule are for?

There's nothing really for new stuff except monitoring nixpkgs pull requests and filter by the has: module tag

Show threadThe Incredible LaserMar 8
@me_and Something like `is:pr label:"8.has: module (new)" is:merged`
Show threadAdam DinwoodieMar 8
@IncredibleLaser the `mk*OptionModule` definitely help catch some types of breaking change, but that's only a small subset of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md. Sounds like I might need to write my own module to monitor for changes to those files...
Show threadFabian Bull  Mar 8
@me_and I follow @hmnews that's not automated but I rarely miss something.
Show threadAdam DinwoodieMar 8
@peri4n That's the opposite of the problem I have! I'm happy with the Home Manager news notifications I get after running `home-manager switch`; what I'm after is some way to find out about breaking changes in NixOS modules or Nixpkgs...