Op 5 jul. 2012 22:59 schreef "Mathijs Kwik" <[email protected]> het volgende: > > cool, tnx > > And a question about NIX_PATH: > by default it's > NIX_PATH='/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos:nixpkgs=/etc/nixos/nixpkgs:nixos=/etc/nixos/nixos:nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix:services=/etc/nixos/services' > > I understand the name=value pairs give the <name> syntax, but how does a plain dirname (like the channels/nixos dir) get handled? > I see it contains nixos and nixpkgs, but also a cryptic default.nix > > My local /home/mathijs/nix-dev dir contains nixos and nixpkgs. > If I want to switch to using those instead of the channel (temporarily), can I just point NIX_PATH there? Or do I need the default.nix too? Or do I beeld to specify nixpkg= and nixos= separately?
s/beeld/need/ Damn you Dutch android spell checker ! :) > > Thanks, > Mathijs > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Eelco Dolstra < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mathijs, > > > > On 05/07/12 16:29, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > > > >> Can someone please tell me the differences between these 3 upgrade options? > >> > >> nixos-rebuild: > >> --upgrade fetch the latest version of NixOS before rebuilding > > > > This is equivalent to: > > > > $ nix-channel --update nixos > > $ nixos-rebuild ... > > > > So it's just a convenience. > > > >> --pull do a nix-pull to get the latest NixOS channel manifest > > > > This is obsolete, but it may be useful for people who don't use the channel. It > > gets the latest NixOS manifest, but there is no guarantee that the manifest > > corresponds to your NixOS/Nixpkgs revision. > > > > -- > > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
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