update.nix: Run update scripts in parallel

To make updating large attribute sets faster, the update scripts
are now run in parallel.

Please note the following changes in semantics:

- The string passed to updateScript needs to be a path to an executable file.
- The updateScript can also be a list: the tail elements will then be passed
  to the head as command line arguments.
This commit is contained in:
Jan Tojnar
2018-12-01 19:17:13 +01:00
parent 7a9acea944
commit 59a94b57f0
17 changed files with 159 additions and 44 deletions
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
# update with:
# $ nix-shell maintainers/scripts/update.nix --argstr package firefox-bin-unwrapped
passthru.updateScript = import ./update.nix {
inherit name channel writeScript xidel coreutils gnused gnugrep gnupg curl;
inherit stdenv name channel writeScript xidel coreutils gnused gnugrep gnupg curl;
baseUrl =
if channel == "devedition"
then "http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/devedition/releases/"