On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Mathijs Kwik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Eelco Dolstra > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 how will this work for nixos-rebuild? It doesn't know -f
To answer myself: it has -I > >> >>> 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 _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
