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
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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 todiffbootin 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 KiBthis works great🌻
thank you!So cool, thanks!
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.
I don’t have a link handy but I’ve seen it done before.
