hey, i'm planning on building a simple external service that:

• exposes a matrix bot for people to subscribe to nixpkgs-update build failures for a package
• periodically (and infrequently, e.g. once a day) parses new logs from https://nixpkgs-update-logs.nix-community.org/
• if there are new errors for a package, notifies people who have subscribed

i think this is the best way to validate the idea, and maybe one day it can be better integrated/upstreamed into nixpkgs-update, if need be

hey, i'm planning on building a simple service that:

• exposes a matrix bot for people to subscribe to nixpkgs-update build failures for a package
• periodically (and infrequently, e.g. once a day) parses new logs from https://nixpkgs-update-logs.nix-community.org/
• if there are new errors for a package, notifies people who have subscribed

i think this is the best way to validate the idea, and maybe one day it can be better integrated/upstreamed into nixpkgs-update, if need be

In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
i'll be using the user agent "asymmetric", in case you want to track usage

In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
better yet, the url to the project repo 🙂

In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
better yet, the url to the project repo 🙂

Is there a way how to disable r-ryantm to update a specific package?

I was trying to disable vmagent for being updated (as we build it out of VictoriaMetrics package via override).
I was trying to add # nixpkgs-update: no auto update being added as comment.
https://github.com/r-ryantm/nixpkgs/blob/a9e94032782cc6f89c5fabcf5d9433b45578cad1/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmagent/package.nix#L5

Thus it did still create a PR ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/331673 ). I would have assumed that I would just create a PR for VictoriaMetrics now, does somebody know what is wrong?

Is there a way how to disable r-ryantm to update a specific package if it's build out of another?

I was trying to disable vmagent for being updated (as we build it out of VictoriaMetrics package via override).
I was trying to add # nixpkgs-update: no auto update being added as comment.
https://github.com/r-ryantm/nixpkgs/blob/a9e94032782cc6f89c5fabcf5d9433b45578cad1/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmagent/package.nix#L5

Thus it did still create a PR ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/331673 ). I would have assumed that I would just create a PR for VictoriaMetrics now, does somebody know what is wrong?

In reply to @asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.uk
but naming is so hard 🙈 nixpkgs-update-notify-bot? nun (nixpkgs-update-notifier)? 😅

In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
better yet, the url to the project repo 🙂

In reply to @shawn8901:matrix.org

Is there a way how to disable r-ryantm to update a specific package if it's build out of another?

I was trying to disable vmagent for being updated (as we build it out of VictoriaMetrics package via override).
I was trying to add # nixpkgs-update: no auto update being added as comment.
https://github.com/r-ryantm/nixpkgs/blob/a9e94032782cc6f89c5fabcf5d9433b45578cad1/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmagent/package.nix#L5

Thus it did still create a PR ( https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/331673 ). I would have assumed that I would just create a PR for VictoriaMetrics now, does somebody know what is wrong?

If you want the comment to work need to fix meta.position:

❯ nix eval -f. vmagent.meta.position
"/Users/zowoq/src/nixpkgs/pkgs/by-name/vi/victoriametrics/package.nix:87"

diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmagent/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmagent/package.nix
index f31526026319..612144762d6f 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmagent/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmagent/package.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # This package is build out of the victoriametrics package.
 # so no separat update prs are needed for vmagent
 # nixpkgs-update: no auto update
-lib.addMetaAttrs { mainProgram = "vmagent"; } (
+lib.addMetaAttrs { mainProgram = "vmagent"; position = toString ./package.nix + ":1"; } (
   victoriametrics.override {
     withServer = false;
     withVictoriaLogs = false;

❯ nix eval -f. vmagent.meta.position
"/Users/zowoq/src/nixpkgs/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmagent/package.nix:1"

Could add it to the skiplist instead:
https://github.com/nix-community/nixpkgs-update/blob/main/src/Skiplist.hs