On 06/13/2014 03:58 PM, Kirill Elagin wrote: > 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 >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
If the unstable channel is not fast enough, you can point your install to a local checkout of nixpkgs. When you want to update, pull in the nixpkgs changes and let it rip and everything not already built will be compiled from source. -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
