Hi,
On 07/03/14 04:18, Kevin Quick wrote:
Looks like I've got a bit of a catch-22 situation here. My current
thinking is to get the nix definitions from github and look for a commit
that's old-enough to let me run nix-env to update nix, but that is a bit
awkward. Does anyone have any
Hi folks,
I have an older NixOS installation that hadn't been updated recently.
After running a channel update, I can unfortunately no longer run
nix-env. I believe it to be due to the nix-channel-obtained
all-packages.nix taking advantage of the new lazy with described below,
but my version
Hi.
On 03/07/2014 04:18 AM, Kevin Quick wrote:
I have an older NixOS installation that hadn't been updated recently.
After running a channel update, I can unfortunately no longer run
nix-env.
Yes, it's not uncommon for people to have this problem, so it is time to
create a wiki page for it,
I am unable to upgrade to 1.6 on one of my machines for an unknown
reason.
I updated my machine by doing 'nixos-rebuild --upgrade switch' and
rebooting.
$ nixos-version
13.09pre5022_71365b7-38d54cf (Aardvark)
$ nix-env --version
nix-env (Nix) 1.5.3
$ which nix-env
On 09/15/2013 10:11 AM, Malcolm Matalka wrote:
I am unable to upgrade to 1.6 on one of my machines for an unknown
reason.
I updated my machine by doing 'nixos-rebuild --upgrade switch' and
rebooting.
nixos-rebuild --upgrade uses the channel. Its current nixpkgs revision
is on 38d54cf, which
$ nix-env -f my-packages.nix -ir
So such usage is officially recommended now? :-)
The old solution still applies, because its easy to create multiple
sets and update one of those sets only:
https://nixos.org/wiki/Howto_keep_multiple_packages_up_to_date_at_once
Updating everything is doable,
Hi,
I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new stable release of the
Nix package manager. Release 1.6 can be found at
http://hydra.nixos.org/release/nix/nix-1.6
and
http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.6/
In addition to the usual bug fixes, this release has several new features:
On 09/10/2013 05:55 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new stable release of the
Nix package manager.
[...]
This release has contributions from Domen Kožar, Eelco Dolstra, Florian
Friesdorf, Gergely Risko, Ivan Kozik, Ludovic Courtès and Shea Levy.
Thanks
