Automated Dependency Updates for Nix
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Renovate supports updating Nix dependencies.
Enabling¶
Nix functionality is currently in beta testing, so you must opt-in to test it. To enable it, add a configuration like this to either your bot config or your renovate.json
:
{
"nix": {
"enabled": true
}
}
If you find any bugs, please create a new discussion first. If you find that it works well, then let us know too.
File Matching¶
By default, Renovate will check any files matching the following regular expression: (^|/)flake\.nix$
.
For details on how to extend a manager's fileMatch
value, please follow this link.
Supported datasources¶
This manager supports extracting the following datasources: git-refs
.
Default config¶
{
"fileMatch": [
"(^|/)flake\\.nix$"
],
"commitMessageTopic": "nixpkgs",
"commitMessageExtra": "to {{newValue}}",
"enabled": false
}
Additional Information¶
The nix
manager supports:
lockFileMaintenance
updates forflake.lock
- nixpkgs updates
Open items¶
The below list of features and bugs were current when this page was generated on December 07, 2024.
Feature requests¶
- Support shorthand nixpkgs references #18955