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| author | Jade Lovelace <lix@jade.fyi> | 2024-07-31 22:15:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Jade Lovelace <lix@jade.fyi> | 2024-08-04 20:41:19 -0700 |
| commit | bd1344ec54e1935f19cf50a8ea15c43792f1c767 (patch) | |
| tree | 0237c4826790723751e745113822240cf930ec46 /doc/manual | |
| parent | 5f0ef50077002f0308fc45f7d0a01a508c970516 (diff) | |
nix flake metadata: print modified dates for input flakes
This was always in the lock file and we can simply actually print it.
The test for this is a little bit silly but it should correctly
control for my daring to exercise timezone code *and* locale code in a
test, which I strongly suspect nobody dared do before.
Sample (abridged):
```
Path: /nix/store/gaxb42z68bcr8lch467shvmnhjjzgd8b-source
Last modified: 1970-01-01 00:16:40
Inputs:
├───flake-compat: github:edolstra/flake-compat/0f9255e01c2351cc7d116c072cb317785dd33b33
│ Last modified: 2023-10-04 13:37:54
├───flake-utils: github:numtide/flake-utils/b1d9ab70662946ef0850d488da1c9019f3a9752a
│ Last modified: 2024-03-11 08:33:50
│ └───systems: github:nix-systems/default/da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e
│ Last modified: 2023-04-09 08:27:08
```
Change-Id: I355f82cb4b633974295375ebad646fb6e2107f9b
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/rl-next/flake-metadata-time.md | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/flake-metadata-time.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/flake-metadata-time.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8664b5a75 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/flake-metadata-time.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +synopsis: "`nix flake metadata` prints modified date" +cls: 1700 +credits: jade +category: Improvements +--- + +Ever wonder "gee, when *did* I update nixpkgs"? +Wonder no more, because `nix flake metadata` now simply tells you the times every locked flake input was updated: + +``` +<...> +Description: The purely functional package manager +Path: /nix/store/c91yi8sxakc2ry7y4ac1smzwka4l5p78-source +Revision: c52cff582043838bbe29768e7da232483d52b61d-dirty +Last modified: 2024-07-31 22:15:54 +Inputs: +├───flake-compat: github:edolstra/flake-compat/0f9255e01c2351cc7d116c072cb317785dd33b33 +│ Last modified: 2023-10-04 06:37:54 +├───nix2container: github:nlewo/nix2container/3853e5caf9ad24103b13aa6e0e8bcebb47649fe4 +│ Last modified: 2024-07-10 13:15:56 +├───nixpkgs: github:NixOS/nixpkgs/e21630230c77140bc6478a21cd71e8bb73706fce +│ Last modified: 2024-07-25 11:26:27 +├───nixpkgs-regression: github:NixOS/nixpkgs/215d4d0fd80ca5163643b03a33fde804a29cc1e2 +│ Last modified: 2022-01-24 11:20:45 +└───pre-commit-hooks: github:cachix/git-hooks.nix/f451c19376071a90d8c58ab1a953c6e9840527fd + Last modified: 2024-07-15 04:21:09 +``` |