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

In reply to @zowoq:matrix.org

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

In reply to @zowoq:matrix.org

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

it seems that setting the position fixes my overall issue. Tho not being on the ignored list but complaining before that the old version is not defined in the master derivation (as those are defined on the overriden ones).

I suspect that nixpkgs-update might should check for ignores first, and then for sanity [as it would at least in this case not result in a faulty error log].

Tho it still fine for my result.
ill keep the ignore comment still, so that the initial intention is clear why meta.position is added.

it seems that setting the position fixes my overall issue. Tho not being on the ignored list but complaining before that the old version is not defined in the master derivation (as those are defined on the overriden ones).

I suspect that nixpkgs-update might should check for ignores first, and then for sanity [as it would at least in this case not result in a faulty error log].

Tho it still fine for my result.
ill keep the ignore comment still, so that the initial intention is clear why meta.position is added.

Or do you have other suggestions for that? 🙂

it seems that setting the position fixes my overall issue. Tho not being on the ignored list but complaining before that the old version is not defined in the master derivation (as those are defined on the overriden ones).

I suspect that nixpkgs-update might should check for ignores first, and then for sanity [as it would at least in this case not result in a faulty error log].

Tho it still fine for my result.
ill could keep the ignore comment still, so that the initial intention is clear why meta.position is added.

Tho i start to feel that adding it to nixpkgs-updates internal skiplist is kind of more understandable.

Or do you have other suggestions for that? 🙂

In reply to @bumperboat:matrix.org
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/330788 there is a later release that came out shortly after this one with further fixes -- does the bot need to be manually ran again?

Or do you have other suggestions for that?

No. This is is known issue with the bot: https://github.com/nix-community/nixpkgs-update/issues/315. There is a plan to fix it but it hasn't been finished yet: https://github.com/nix-community/nixpkgs-update/issues/315.