Ben Franksen wrote: > (4) How do I fix something if it is broken? Note I don't want to upgrade > my whole NixOS configuration to the unstable branch (as all the > documentation suggests), just make one or two fixes in certain packages > (e.g. the nedit package is currently broken, when starting the binary it > crashes with some X11 bad opcode error). I expected the nixpkgs repository > to have a 'stable' branch so I could check that out and work from there > but such a branch seems not to exist. How else can I replace/fix/change > the nix expression for a single package, leaving the rest of the system as > is?
Part of the mystery is solved. I don't use git on a regular basis, so I missed out on the '-a' switch for git branch. I guess 'release-13.10' is the branch I am interested in (please tell me if I am wrong). Cheers Ben -- "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." -- Scott Adams _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
