http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-upgrading
Basically, you just subscribe to unstable channel and get new packages with a few days delay (Hydra is being somewhat moody now). -- Кирилл Елагин On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Pierre de Boisset <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all of you, > > I'm getting interested more and more into both that package manager and > that GNU distribution. > > I come from Arch/Linux, and actually one of my concerns is about update > pace. Arch Linux ensures rolling releases so we can enjoy the latest > software versions few hours up to few days after they have been published. > Sorry for that, I haven't got any informations about update pace except > “Baboon”, a new version of nix package manager has been published in April. > > A linked concern is about from-source compilation. To get updates faster, > is there any easy way to fetch sources then compile them automatically? > Could we be able to share those built packages to fasten update pace? For > example, Arch/Linux provides such handy tool: AUR > <https://aur.archlinux.org/> used with yaourt > <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/yaourt>. > > I'm not sketching comparison between Arch and NixOs but merely trying to > figure how easy it's to live with NixOs as main OS ;-) > > Peter 胡雨軒 > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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