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

**URL:** https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/t/my-nur-repo-is-getting-big-is-there-an-auto-update-script-similar-to-nixpkgs/67236
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**Created:** [July 26, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/t/my-nur-repo-is-getting-big-is-there-an-auto-update-script-similar-to-nixpkgs/67236 "2025-07-26T14:19:07Z")
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### Author: ![foolnotion](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/user_avatar/discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/foolnotion/32/2664_2.png) [@foolnotion](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/u/foolnotion)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/t/my-nur-repo-is-getting-big-is-there-an-auto-update-script-similar-to-nixpkgs/67236/1 "2025-07-26T14:19:07Z")

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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!

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### Author: ![bme](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@bme](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/u/bme)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/t/my-nur-repo-is-getting-big-is-there-an-auto-update-script-similar-to-nixpkgs/67236/2 "2025-07-27T14:29:49Z")

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[GitHub - Mic92/nix-update: Swiss-knife for updating nix packages.](https://github.com/Mic92/nix-update) + a script to interate over the attrs in the repo?

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### Author: ![devusb](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/user_avatar/discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/devusb/32/7751_2.png) [@devusb](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/u/devusb)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/t/my-nur-repo-is-getting-big-is-there-an-auto-update-script-similar-to-nixpkgs/67236/3 "2025-07-27T14:31:53Z")

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[GitHub - selfuryon/nix-update-action: Update flake packages by nix-update via github-actions](https://github.com/selfuryon/nix-update-action) this has worked pretty well for me so far – uses `nix-update` under the hood

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### Author: ![bme](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@bme](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/u/bme)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/t/my-nur-repo-is-getting-big-is-there-an-auto-update-script-similar-to-nixpkgs/67236/4 "2025-07-27T14:47:19Z")

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[nix-update-action/nix-update.sh at 21ef9ccb47eb482821e0502a80e988e0dfe49e6b · selfuryon/nix-update-action · GitHub](https://github.com/selfuryon/nix-update-action/blob/21ef9ccb47eb482821e0502a80e988e0dfe49e6b/nix-update.sh#L19) seems about what I’d expect 🙂 although joining them by comma only to split them again is a choice.

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### Author: ![FedericoSchonborn](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/user_avatar/discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/federicoschonborn/32/31264_2.png) [@FedericoSchonborn](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/u/FedericoSchonborn)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.nixosstag.fcio.net/t/my-nur-repo-is-getting-big-is-there-an-auto-update-script-similar-to-nixpkgs/67236/5 "2025-07-28T12:29:10Z")

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

> **[nur-packages/flake/apps.nix at 1f81b180a9342a0fa87c1736b34d15855bd34814](https://codeberg.org/FedericoSchonborn/nur-packages/src/commit/1f81b180a9342a0fa87c1736b34d15855bd34814/flake/apps.nix#L89)**
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> nur-packages - Personal Nix package collection

> **[nur-packages/flake/apps.nix at 1f81b180a9342a0fa87c1736b34d15855bd34814](https://codeberg.org/FedericoSchonborn/nur-packages/src/commit/1f81b180a9342a0fa87c1736b34d15855bd34814/flake/apps.nix#L126)**
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> nur-packages - Personal Nix package collection