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This is neat! I wonder if there would be value in having a repo for only GUI applications, equivalent to casks. I suppose it works best when the application doe

by bpye 5y ago

This is neat! I wonder if there would be value in having a repo for only GUI applications, equivalent to casks. I suppose it works best when the application doesn’t also auto-update, which many do.

chriswarbo 5y ago
> I suppose it works best when the application doesn’t also auto-update, which many do. Yes, the update prompts get annoying (auto-updaters don't work since everything's read-only). I use niv to update things, e.g. $ niv update firefox -v94.0 That will: - Update firefox's version field in nix/sources.json - Update its url field based on its template (for Firefox that's "https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/<version>/mac-EME-free/en-GB/Firefox%20<version>.dmg https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/<version>/mac-E...") - Fetch that file to the Nix store - Update firefox's sha256 field to match that file's Running nix-build will create a new system package, and the nix/sources.json changes can be committed to git.