just realized that one thing that NixOS could use is an update changelog of what packages were updated after running sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

tbh maybe there’s a verbose option that I haven’t discovered yet

  • JustinEnglish
    14•4 months ago

    Yeah, its not really well documented or ergonomic, but diff-closures can do this:

    https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-diff-closures.html

    I have "nix profile diff-closures --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system | less" aliased to diffboot in my home-manager config so I can see what new packages have been installed.

    Example output:

    Version 80 -> 81:
  firefox: 124.0b2 → 124.0b5
  firefox-devedition-unwrapped: 124.0b2 → 124.0b5, -26.1 KiB
  ibus: 1.5.28 → 1.5.29, +189.5 KiB
  nixos-system-dio: 24.05.20240228.9099616 → 24.05.20240229.1536926
  python3.11-botocore: 1.34.21 → 1.34.49, +611.7 KiB
  qtquick3d: +8.1 KiB
  source: +84.1 KiB
  • @[email protected]English
    5•3 months ago

    That would be great. What I found when I looked for this was.

    nvd diff $(ls -d1v /nix/var/nix/profiles/system-*-link|tail -n 2)

    No idea how it works but it seems to. I just do “nix shell -p nvd” then run that.

  • AtemuEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    I don’t have a link handy but I’ve seen it done before.