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first part of nix updater
nixith Jan 19, 2026
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split out and fix update script
nixith Jan 20, 2026
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fix version and add tag_name input
nixith Jan 20, 2026
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github pr creation
nixith Jan 20, 2026
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fix gh command and don't mess with state
nixith Jan 20, 2026
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add github PR auto merging
nixith Jan 20, 2026
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fix new branch name
nixith Jan 20, 2026
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remove script from post-release.yml
nixith Jan 29, 2026
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33 changes: 33 additions & 0 deletions .github/scripts/update_nix.sh
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# edit version in package.nix
sed -i "s/version = \".*\"/version = \"$VERSION\"/" package.nix

#x86 linux
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
SANITIZE_HASH=$(sed -e 's/[&\\/]/\\&/g; s/$/\\/' -e '$s/\\$//' <<<"$NEW_HASH")
sed -zi "s/sha256 = \".*\"/sha256 = \"${SANITIZE_HASH}\"/1m" package.nix

#aarch64 linux
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.linux-aarch64.tar.xz"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
SANITIZE_HASH=$(sed -e 's/[&\\/]/\\&/g; s/$/\\/' -e '$s/\\$//' <<<"$NEW_HASH")
sed -zi "s/sha256 = \".*\"/sha256 = \"${SANITIZE_HASH}\"/2m" package.nix

#x86 macos
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.macos-x86_64.dmg"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
SANITIZE_HASH=$(sed -e 's/[&\\/]/\\&/g; s/$/\\/' -e '$s/\\$//' <<<"$NEW_HASH")
sed -zi "s/sha256 = \".*\"/sha256 = \"${SANITIZE_HASH}\"/3m" package.nix

#aarch64 macos
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.macos-aarch64.dmg"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
SANITIZE_HASH=$(sed -e 's/[&\\/]/\\&/g; s/$/\\/' -e '$s/\\$//' <<<"$NEW_HASH")
sed -zi "s/sha256 = \".*\"/sha256 = \"${SANITIZE_HASH}\"/4m" package.nix

if [ -z "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" ]; then
echo $(cat package.nix) >>$GITHUB_OUTPUT
else
cat package.nix
fi
57 changes: 57 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/post-release.yml
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git checkout -b docs-production origin/docs-production
git reset --hard origin/main
git push --force-with-lease
update-nix:
name: Update glide nix flake
runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- name: install nix
uses: DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action@1d699fc25db3f9e079cd2f168ca007a4183389be # or v3.15.1 to pin to a release

- name: clone glide.nix repo
uses: actions/checkout@08eba0b27e820071cde6df949e0beb9ba4906955 # v4.3.0
with:
token: ${{ secrets.REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
persist-credentials: true
repository : "glide-browser/glide.nix"

- name: update hashes
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env:
VERSION: inputs.tag_name || ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
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GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
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GITHUB_TOKEN isn't set in the secrets for this repo, I think this should work

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GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

run: |
git switch -c "update-$VERSION"
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actually just realised this won't work because you're only checking out the glide.nix repo.

either the script could live in glide.nix or you'd have to checkout the glide repo and glide.nix to different directories

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Do we actually need any data from the glide repo? It could always live in glide.nix (and would make this easier). There would just have to be a trigger on the glide.nix side, either a webhook from here or some other github actions knowledge I'm unfamiliar with

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Yeah I think it'd make sense for the script to live in glide.nix at a minimum.

I'm not aware of a nice builtin way to do cross-repo webhooks without having to host a server in the middle.

So the options in my mind are:

  1. Move script to glide.nix, keep the workflow that runs the script / creates the PR in this repo
  2. Move script to glide.nix, this post-release workflow then invokes a workflow defined in glide.nix (you could do this with workflow_dispatch, maybe even workflow_call I'd need to double check)

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looking into this I think the best bet we have is moving forward with option 2 (simplified my work a lot, I can use the actions you mentioned) and using the github cli to do workflow_dispatch. workflow_call could work, but there's some need for orginizational level changes there and I'm not entirely sure what context this sort of thing executes in (i.e. would the pull action pull from here, or from glide.nix)

# edit version in package.nix
sed -i 's/version = ".*"/version = "$VERSION"/' package.nix

#x86 linux
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
sed -zi 's/sha256 = ".*"/sha256 = "$NEW_HASH"/1m' package.nix

#aarch64 linux
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.linux-aarch64.tar.xz"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
sed -zi 's/sha256 = ".*"/sha256 = "$NEW_HASH"/2m' package.nix

#x86 macos
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.macos-x86_64.dmg"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
sed -zi 's/sha256 = ".*"/sha256 = "$NEW_HASH"/3m' package.nix

#aarch64 macos
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.macos-aarch64.dmg"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
sed -zi 's/sha256 = ".*"/sha256 = "$NEW_HASH"/4m' package.nix

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should all be in the script now?

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# edit version in package.nix
sed -i 's/version = ".*"/version = "$VERSION"/' package.nix
#x86 linux
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.linux-x86_64.tar.xz"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
sed -zi 's/sha256 = ".*"/sha256 = "$NEW_HASH"/1m' package.nix
#aarch64 linux
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.linux-aarch64.tar.xz"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
sed -zi 's/sha256 = ".*"/sha256 = "$NEW_HASH"/2m' package.nix
#x86 macos
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.macos-x86_64.dmg"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
sed -zi 's/sha256 = ".*"/sha256 = "$NEW_HASH"/3m' package.nix
#aarch64 macos
RELEASE_LINK="https://github.com/glide-browser/glide/releases/download/$VERSION/glide.macos-aarch64.dmg"
NEW_HASH=$(nix hash to-sri --type sha256 $(nix-prefetch-url "$RELEASE_LINK"))
sed -zi 's/sha256 = ".*"/sha256 = "$NEW_HASH"/4m' package.nix


# modification done
git add package.nix
git commit -m "update: v$VERSION"

# make pull request
gh -R "glide-browser/glide.nix" pr create --title "update to version $VERSION" --body "" --head "$update-$VERSION"
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I think this won't push the branch for you because you're passing --head, so you need

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gh -R "glide-browser/glide.nix" pr create --title "update to version $VERSION" --body "" --head "$update-$VERSION"
git push origin "update-$VERSION"
gh -R "glide-browser/glide.nix" pr create --title "update to version $VERSION" --body "" --head "update-$VERSION"


# auto-merge
gh -R "glide-browser/glide.nix" pr merge "update-$VERSION" --auto --rebase
#TODO: check if this works

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