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Automatically update nix manual #1143

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don't fetch old nix releases
Mic92 May 24, 2025
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ci: automate downloading new releases
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19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/update-nix-releases.yml
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name: "Update nix releases"
on:
repository_dispatch:
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
- cron: "31 2 * * *"
jobs:
update-nix-releases:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: cachix/install-nix-action@v31
- name: Update nix releases
run: nix-shell --run update-nix-releases
- name: Create Pull Request
uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
with:
title: Update nix versions
labels: dependencies
8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions nix/update-nix-releases.nix
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Expand Up @@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ writeShellApplication {
| sort --reverse --version-sort \
| while read -r version; do

# ignore everything below 2.18 for speed, this might need to be adjusted in the future
majorVersion=$(echo "$version" | cut -d. -f1)
minorVersion=$(echo "$version" | cut -d. -f2)
if [ "$majorVersion" -lt 2 ] || { [ "$majorVersion" -eq 2 ] && [ "$minorVersion" -lt 18 ]; }; then
echo >&2 "Skipping $version"
continue
fi

rev=$(git -C "$tmp/nix" rev-parse "$version-maintenance")
echo >&2 "Version $version on branch $version-maintenance is at $rev"

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