| 6 Mar 2025 |
 linj | maybe the bot ignores unfree pkgs? | 12:54:49 |
 🐰 xiaoxiangmoe | No | 12:55:38 |
| 🐰 xiaoxiangmoe | https://r.ryantm.com/log/the-unarchiver/ | 12:55:39 |
| 🐰 xiaoxiangmoe | this is another unfree software, but not ignored by bot | 12:56:09 |
| 🐰 xiaoxiangmoe | Every commit created by maintainer can't merged by merge-bot, so I think I need some mechanics to trigger update-bot manually. | 12:58:40 |
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 sorrel | the answer to this, I think: the fflogs derivation no longer works for the latest fflogs version, and nixpkgs-update is unhelpfully printing a message about unfreeness rather than The Actual Error Message. fixing the derivation then running nixpkgs-update locally works juuuust fine. | 17:14:19 |
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| Anton (he/him) | Am I interpreting the logs correctly, that aerc's updateScript has been executed by r-ryantm 5 times in 2025 with those ~14 days between each execution? Or are there additional attempts not being logged? | 16:31:12 |
 hexa | all attempts get logged | 20:21:21 |
| Anton (he/him) | Thanks! I was wondering about the frequency of attempts. | 20:55:54 |
| hexa | me too 🙂 | 22:48:42 |
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| 🐰 xiaoxiangmoe | Redacted or Malformed Event | 12:07:57 |
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| 23 Mar 2025 |
 Gaétan Lepage | It is a bit annoying that the bot automatically substitutes ${version} with ${src.tag} in meta.changelog.
Is this made on purpose? If not, where should I send a PR to disable this? | 10:20:09 |
 FliegendeWurst | In reply to @glepage:matrix.org
It is a bit annoying that the bot automatically substitutes ${version} with ${src.tag} in meta.changelog.
Is this made on purpose? If not, where should I send a PR to disable this? It is more accurate in some cases, and wrong in others. Would be good to disable, in my opinion. PR probably to the nixpkgs-update repo? | 20:45:00 |
| Gaétan Lepage | Yes, as there is no clear consensus on which one is best, I don't think that the update script should enforce one of them. | 21:11:56 |
| Gaétan Lepage | I'll have a look | 21:12:26 |
 SigmaSquadron | Gaétan Lepage: Are you sure that this is necessary? (especially for a new contributor)
nixpkgs-update automatically fetches new releases from packages published on GitHub without an explicit passthru.updateScript set.
| 21:15:25 |
| Gaétan Lepage | In reply to @sigmasquadron:matrix.org
Gaétan Lepage: Are you sure that this is necessary? (especially for a new contributor)
nixpkgs-update automatically fetches new releases from packages published on GitHub without an explicit passthru.updateScript set.
I didn't know that! I thought that specifying updateScript was necessary for the bot to work. (except for python packages where this is set by default). | 21:16:58 |
| SigmaSquadron | As far as I understand, that's what the documentation means by "It uses package repository information from Repology.org, the GitHub releases API, and the package passthru.updateScript to generate a lists of outdated packages." (emphasis mine)
I'm not exactly sure if that's for some internal "list of outdated packages" or the actual update itself, so take this with a grain of salt. | 21:20:14 |
| SigmaSquadron | I'm just more concerned about making such reviews for first-time contributors; we can merge a package as-is, and add non-essential improvements later on. | 21:21:28 |
| SigmaSquadron | * I'm just more concerned about making such reviews for first-time contributors; we can merge a package as-is, and add non-essential improvements later on. (ditto for using lib.cmakeBool, since that library is really only used in situations where the boolean isn't always true or false. The string flag is fine.) | 21:23:14 |
| 24 Mar 2025 |
 Austin Horstman | In reply to @sigmasquadron:matrix.org
Gaétan Lepage: Are you sure that this is necessary? (especially for a new contributor)
nixpkgs-update automatically fetches new releases from packages published on GitHub without an explicit passthru.updateScript set.
It’s not necessary for the bot, but can be helpful for maintainers running the update scripts in repo | 12:23:10 |
