| 27 Nov 2024 |
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| amiablechief | Hi all, quick question. I first installed 24.05 and then at some point switched from channel- to flake-based (including home manager) configuration. Is there anything special I need to do to 'upgrade' to 24.11 when it releases? | 18:27:20 |
 Tristan Ross | In reply to @amiablechief:matrix.org
Hi all, quick question. I first installed 24.05 and then at some point switched from channel- to flake-based (including home manager) configuration. Is there anything special I need to do to 'upgrade' to 24.11 when it releases? Upgrading should be pretty straightforward. | 18:34:37 |
| Tristan Ross | It usually is | 18:34:42 |
| Tristan Ross | If something changes that gives you a new error, check the manual. | 18:35:04 |
| Tristan Ross | The only ones I know of off the top of my head are related to graphics and sound | 18:35:44 |
 Vladimír Čunát | With the flake you just follow the channel anyway, I expect. (i.e. the nixos-24.05 branch right now) I don't really see a difference here, only a slight change in how you get the commit and somewhat more freedom in that with flakes. | 19:05:45 |
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| amiablechief | That's what I suspected/expected. Thanks for replying. | 20:03:12 |
| 28 Nov 2024 |
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 infinisil | I think I'm too late to get it into the initial release, but I'll try to write lib release notes today (as I've also done the past 2 releases) | 15:08:42 |
| infinisil | Done: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/359887 | 16:27:03 |
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| Tristan Ross | getchoo & getpsyched: how ready are you guys for the release? The 24.11 staging cycle which blocked things just got merged so I'm doing the final things before the release. | 20:08:07 |
 getpsyched | AFAIK this is the relevant PR that awaits:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/359887 | 20:09:32 |
| getpsyched | Oh, already mentioned above. | 20:09:49 |
| Tristan Ross | Yeah, I've already been aware of it heh | 20:13:19 |
 getchoo | i believe some people from the wiki.nixos.org may have wanted a section in the release notes? (the nixpkgs.lib PR above reminded me)
but AFAIK they haven't reached out to either of us since. i'll ping them in #wiki:nixos.org and double check, but i don't think it'd be a blocker | 20:23:48 |
| infinisil | Btw just made https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/359949, not super important though | 20:24:11 |
| infinisil | (In a previous release we struggled with the release notes not matching on the different branches) | 20:25:11 |
| getchoo | would making sure that's in sync post branch-off be something good to add to the release wiki? | 20:36:02 |
| infinisil | 💯 | 20:36:13 |
| getchoo | making a PR now :) | 20:36:24 |
| infinisil | Well in this case it got out of sync after the branch-off | 20:36:49 |
| infinisil | Perhaps there should be some automation that always checks for a diff between master and all the releases, and makes a PR to match it if not | 20:37:50 |
| infinisil | Very low priority though, this doesn't affect much of anything | 20:38:06 |
| Tristan Ross | I've got https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/359945 & https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/359948 in the queue for the before the final release stuff. Working on the "Gather some information about the release for the final announcement" step, if I've missed anything in the PR's please lmk. | 21:36:54 |
| Tristan Ross | 49079 commits & 2669 contributors in 24.11 | 21:38:26 |
