On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Roger Qiu <[email protected]> wrote: > Also when I do this: > > $ echo $NIXPKGS_CONFIG > /etc/nix/nixpkgs-config.nix > > Is that meant to be correct. I thought it should be `~/.nixpkgs/config.nix`? > > Thanks, > Roger > > > On 22/07/2014 4:56 PM, Roger Qiu wrote: >> >> Thanks that's the right way. >> >> Interestingly the `~/.nixpkgs` folder is not installed by default. >> >> Thanks, >> Roger >> >> On 22/07/2014 4:53 AM, Bit Shift wrote: >>> >>> On 21/07/2014 05:30, Roger Qiu wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> The NixOS manual specifies 2 ways of installing packages, the >>>> declarative style through configuration.nix + nixos-rebuild switch, or >>>> the per-user style via `nix-env -i`. >>>> >>>> While you can configure the package options inside configuration.nix, >>>> how does one configure packages when they are installed on a per-user >>>> style. >>>> >>>> For example if I install NGINX or PHP with `nix-env -i nginx` or >>>> `nix-env -i php`, I get NGINX and PHP on my particular `~/.nix-profile`. >>>> >>>> How do I change the configuration inside nginx.conf or php.ini or >>>> php-fpm.ini? >>>> >>>> There doesn't seem to be any way to do so. The `~/.nix-profile` is >>>> read-only. >>>> >>>> What if there was a per-user configuration.nix which was able to >>>> actually configure the packages, or maybe the options could be specified >>>> on the command line as part of `nix-env`. >>>> >>>> Otherwise, there doesn't seem to be any way of effectively using >>>> complicated packages on a per-user basis such NGINX, Apache, PHP and >>>> every other package that requires configuration. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Roger >>>> >>> >>> nix-env -i (or preferably -iA for no ambiguity) will use the function you >>> define for the packageOverrides attr in ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix and install >>> the new/changed derivations it results in. >>> >>> It's already explained in [1], so I'll refrain from trying to rephrase it >>> myself and probably distort some of the meaning. >>> >>> -B >>> >>> [1]: >>> https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_Modifying_Packages#Overriding_Existing_Packages >> >> > > -- > Founder of Polycademy & SnapSearch > http://polycademy.com > https://snapsearch.io > +61420925975 >
That I don't know. It's certainly set to that on my box, while stuff in ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix works correctly, but I'm not nearly well-versed enough in Nix to know what the purpose of that environment variable actually is. -B _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
