In reply to @zowoq:matrix.org
r-ryantm is fine but it is throttled because of the load on ofborg.

looking at this, it seems like the package that's printed in the logs is generic.nix rather than 4.5.nix, which imports it.

then nixpkgs-update can't find 4.5 in the package, and doesn't file an update PR to 5.1.

is that a bug?

It looks in generic.nix because of meta.position:

❯ EDITOR=echo nix edit -f. docbook_xml_dtd_45
/home/zowoq/src/nixpkgs/pkgs/data/sgml+xml/schemas/xml-dtd/docbook/generic.nix

doesn't file an update PR to 5.1.

Sorry, I don't understand this. If the bot did file that PR, wouldn't it be incorrect?

yes i guess you're right it shouldn't file that pr, my bad

who/what sets meta.position? i couldn't find mention of it in meta.chapter.md or lib/meta.nix

hey, we would want to automate updates of vimPlugins.*. we already have a script that does that and after https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/364001 it can be run by a bot

what would it take to run nix-build -A vimPluginsUpdater && ./result/bin/vim-plugins-updater update using r-ryantm every month?

hey, we would want to automate updates of vimPlugins.*. we already have a script that does that and it can be run by a bot

what would it take to run nix-build -A vimPluginsUpdater && ./result/bin/vim-plugins-updater update using r-ryantm every month?

https://nixpkgs-update-logs.nix-community.org/vimPluginsUpdater/

The bot has already picked up vimPluginsUpdater because it is python which has a default updateScript, need to change it so it uses itself as the updateScript and pass the update command. The bot is running other package updates in parallel so would be good to not saturate the connection to github. Because of ofborg problems updates have been slow for the last couple of months, once the backlog clears it'll be running every week, approximately.

diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/updater.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/updater.nix
index 41413a5b4c66..8f04ecc8f0dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/updater.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/updater.nix
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
   # optional
   neovim-unwrapped,
+
+  writeShellScript,
+  vimPluginsUpdater,
 }:
 buildPythonApplication {
   pname = "vim-plugins-updater";
@@ -49,4 +52,9 @@ buildPythonApplication {
   '';
 
   meta.mainProgram = "vim-plugins-updater";
+
+  passthru.updateScript = writeShellScript "updateScript" ''
+    # don't saturate the update bot connection
+    ${lib.getExe vimPluginsUpdater} --proc 2 update
+  '';
 }