Hi, On 22/04/12 11:03, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> However, I have some local packages in my /etc/nixos/nixpkgs, and they > are not available anymore. > So I guess channels are not for people who want to have some local > modifications. > Does this mean we need to setup the old nixpkgs_sys symlink manually > after a new installation? You can do that, or pass "-f /path/to/my/nixpkgs" to nix-env. > And what does this mean for binary updates? Are they only available > through the channel from now on? It's the same as it's always been: if the path you're building is available in a subscribed channel, you get binaries, otherwise it's built from source. So it depends on how much your source tree differs from the sources in the channel. -- Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
