Stream: nix

Topic: Dependency patches without massive rebuilds

view this post on Zulip Tim DeHerrera (Feb 18 2024 at 19:32):

TIL about:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/replace-dependency.nix

I have never seen this in the wild but sounds useful for quick security patches without rebuilding all of nixpkgs (say for the recent glibc vulnerabilities).

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