[Nix-dev] Hydra nixpkgs-unstable channel lagging behind?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 18/04/12 17:45, Rickard Nilsson wrote:

> So, if I maintain a set of changes to nixos and nixpkgs in /etc/nixos I have to build and activate nixos manually, rather than with nixos-rebuild?

You just have to add "-I /etc/nixos" to the nixos-rebuild call.

> It would be fancy if Hydra could tag a git repository with the correct combination of nixos and nixpkgs submodules for each succesful NixOS build. Then I could rebase my repos and take advantage of the hydra builds.

Yes, that's the goal (after the Git migration).  Or rather the NixOS/Nixpkgs
mirror script would do that (not Hydra).

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