Hi, On 04/04/12 16:55, Shea Levy wrote:
>> The downside is that it can take longer for the channel to catch up >> with the Nixpkgs repository. But that's only a problem for people >> who build from the Nixpkgs repository. > > Isn't this all NixOS users? Or are we going to move toward nixos-checkout > using > the nixpkgs channel as well? Yes, except that I want to have a NixOS channel that contains Nixpkgs as a subset, based on this NixOS Hydra view: http://hydra.nixos.org/view/nixos/tested That way, you can run "nix-channel --update" to update NixOS with a reasonable assurance that things will still work (and that everything has already been precompiled). -- Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
