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nixUnstable = nixStable #175603
nixUnstable = nixStable #175603
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Now that we have regular (6-weekly) releases, there no longer is a compelling reason to have an unstable version of Nix in Nixpkgs. People who really need the bleeding edge can use the 'nix' flake.
👍🏽 and /cc PR #175541 |
sha256 = "sha256-RH77Y4IhbTofNYlLQSGKLL0fJAG9iHSwRNvMEZ4M0VQ="; | ||
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unstable = self.stable; |
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i'd prefer not to remove it but if it is wanted then this should be turned in to a throw alias that explains why it has been removed
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The title says "remove" but to me it's more like increasing version of nixUnstable
to 2.8.
Backport failed for Please cherry-pick the changes locally. git fetch origin release-22.05
git worktree add -d .worktree/backport-175603-to-release-22.05 origin/release-22.05
cd .worktree/backport-175603-to-release-22.05
git checkout -b backport-175603-to-release-22.05
ancref=$(git merge-base f51cb36f2c98a991b8e4fbe257dc146577075f84 f888642ec69962a5da2e80c69b731d89e61f637d)
git cherry-pick -x $ancref..f888642ec69962a5da2e80c69b731d89e61f637d |
On master we did this in f888642 in PR NixOS#175603, but on stable nixpkgs we surely don't want to advance nixStable.
Description of changes
Now that we have regular (6-weekly) releases, there no longer is a compelling reason to have an unstable version of Nix in Nixpkgs. People who really need the bleeding edge can use the 'nix' flake.
Things done
sandbox = true
set innix.conf
? (See Nix manual)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD"
. Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage./result/bin/
)nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.sh
to update generated release notes