[Nix-dev] Re: How do I ...

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

pjotr2008 at thebird.nl (Pjotr Prins) writes:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:37:28AM +0200, Marc Weber wrote:

>> You need to know about your custom config:
>> ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix
>> 
>> add
>> {
>>   git = { svnSupport = true; };
>> }
>
> If I do that nothing happens.

Are you sure?  Can you run `nix-env' through `strace' to make sure it
opens that file?

> What version of nix is this supposed to work? I am using 12409 - as I
> have trouble getting later versions to work. What is the current
> version people are actually running?

It's virtually "always" worked for me.  I'm now using Nix 0.12pre12824.

Thanks,
Ludo'.