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Wouldn’t it be enough to checkout the commit where a-x.0 was updated, rather than the last known commit where a is at x.0? That way, if the packagr built succes

Wouldn’t it be enough to checkout the commit where a-x.0 was updated, rather than the last known commit where a is at x.0? That way, if the packagr built successfully at that commit, you know it’s a good version. We do something similar (and the way more manual) here[0]. [0]: https://github.com/dapphub/dapptools/blob/master/overlay.nix#L102 https://github.com/dapphub/dapptools/blob/master/overlay.nix...

matthewbauer 7y ago
That would work better. It probably still requires some curation. For instance CVE patches, configuration changes, and added platform support usually won’t include a version change. Just using the first commit may mean you miss those changes.