Mic92/nix-update

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Swiss-knife for updating nix packages.

Stars: 879
Forks: 110
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 49
Avg merge: 19h 35m
Merged PRs (30d): 11

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 13, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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49 open issues indexed

Flake support for `--use-update-script` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

Mic92/nix-update#666 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
bug: changelog can point to the old release without `--commit` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

Mic92/nix-update#657 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
--version-regex doesn't seem to work correctly with flakes. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

Mic92/nix-update#647 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2026
nix-update seems to downgrade Codeberg packages Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Mic92/nix-update#636 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2026
`fetchFromRadicle` support Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Mic92/nix-update#631 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Add changelog git trailer for every version released between the last version and the new version Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Mic92/nix-update#627 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 14, 2026
Use update script if it exists without need for the —use-update-script Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Mic92/nix-update#554 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 20, 2026
Main branch doesn't update hash with --flake Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Mic92/nix-update#535 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 23, 2026
`deepClone` seems to be ignored Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#510 · Opened Nov 30, 2025
Only build when updated Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Mic92/nix-update#497 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 12, 2025
Feature request: Making use of electron builder yamls Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#493 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 5, 2025
`--quiet` seems to do nothing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

Mic92/nix-update#483 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Feature request: add `--no-link` option when using `--build` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

Mic92/nix-update#480 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 11, 2025
cargoHash not being updated in overrideAttrs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Mic92/nix-update#474 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 4, 2025
Can't update with `applyPatches` src Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Mic92/nix-update#472 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 29, 2025
Support multiple sources via srcs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Mic92/nix-update#468 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 25, 2025
update of fetchurl/fetchzip hash Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#438 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 4, 2025
Rolls back from unstable version to older version tag Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Mic92/nix-update#435 · 6 reactions · Opened Aug 22, 2025
Some way to disable output unless version is changed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#409 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2025
Add support for fetchhg Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#399 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2025
Update a generic dependencies FOD? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#388 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 4, 2025
Auto update archive URLs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#387 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 4, 2025
crystal2nix support Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#346 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 11, 2025
Rollback file if build after update failed Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Mic92/nix-update#336 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2025
Incompatible with the gitTracked fileset function Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#335 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 30, 2025
Cannot update a subpackage when using a version regex Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Mic92/nix-update#333 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 20, 2025
`legacyPackages` cannot be updated via `nix-update-script` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Mic92/nix-update#327 · Opened Mar 12, 2025
Picking up pre-release candidates even when branch is specified Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#321 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 21, 2025
steam-fetcher support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Mic92/nix-update#319 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 12, 2025
issue getting new package to work with command Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

Mic92/nix-update#284 · 11 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2024
Support `fetchFromGitLab` with `forceFetchGit` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#281 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 19, 2024
zon2nix support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Mic92/nix-update#275 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 8, 2024
Dependency Dashboard Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

Mic92/nix-update#262 · Opened Jul 7, 2024
error : `.../lib/attresets.nix` is not in `...-source` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#249 · 4 comments · Opened May 10, 2024
[Feature Request] Some way to copy files from src to the nix code folder Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#237 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2024
nix-update does not check all tags for versions on github Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Mic92/nix-update#231 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 4, 2024
Can't do hash update on Go module in a flake Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Mic92/nix-update#230 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2024
Updating a flake will fail to load if it is in a subdirectory of a repository and depends on stuff above the flake.nix Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Mic92/nix-update#226 · 6 reactions · Opened Feb 23, 2024
nix-update pulumiPackages.pulumi-azure-native fails Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

Mic92/nix-update#201 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 11, 2023
`Cargo.lock` not removed if git dependencies has been removed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Mic92/nix-update#197 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2023
Dependency Dashboard Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 15/100

Mic92/nix-update#187 · Opened Aug 12, 2023
Add support for standalone fetchers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#163 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2023
Dependency Dashboard Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 15/100

Mic92/nix-update#161 · Opened May 11, 2023
Error while trying to update rust package Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#71 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 15, 2021
Possible upstream lib nvchecker Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Mic92/nix-update#57 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2021
Revert version change if nix-prefetch fails - or - dont commit if version doesn't change Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Mic92/nix-update#45 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 24, 2021
Trying to update to a version that doesn't exist changes package version Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Mic92/nix-update#12 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 29, 2020
Updates to unstable versions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

Mic92/nix-update#11 · 14 comments · Opened Jul 29, 2020
Requirements for auto-updating Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Mic92/nix-update#8 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 5, 2020

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