My NUR repo is getting big. Is there an auto-update script similar to nixpkgs?

foolnotion · July 26, 2025, 2:19pm

Hi,

Does anyone have experience with auto-update scripts for NUR? My nur-repo has grown to over 70 packages and it’s not so easy to manually track new versions.

Thanks!

bme · July 27, 2025, 2:29pm

GitHub - Mic92/nix-update: Swiss-knife for updating nix packages. + a script to interate over the attrs in the repo?

devusb · July 27, 2025, 2:31pm

GitHub - selfuryon/nix-update-action: Update flake packages by nix-update via github-actions this has worked pretty well for me so far – uses nix-update under the hood

bme · July 27, 2025, 2:47pm

nix-update-action/nix-update.sh at 21ef9ccb47eb482821e0502a80e988e0dfe49e6b · selfuryon/nix-update-action · GitHub seems about what I’d expect although joining them by comma only to split them again is a choice.

FedericoSchonborn · July 28, 2025, 12:29pm

I have a flake “app” that just runs every package’s passthru.updateScript (which ends up being nix-update-script most times anyway).