Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > On 06/06/14 13:29, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > >> How are people supposed to use that channel? >> I don't think I can _add_ a secondary channel which provides a >> conflicting source (nixos). Switching back and forth doesn't sound >> easy. > > Switching to another channel is very easy: > > $ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/<channel-name> nixos
The command is not the uneasy part :) I just don't think that switching back&forth for security-updates is a sane thing to do. Leaving the system at the "security" channel means you will end up with untested stuff that probably fails the default channel build. I would rather have a secondary channel that gets "merged" (packageOverrides style) into nixpkgs, which only contains overrides that haven't made it into the main channel yet. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
