[Nix-dev] confused by the recent channels stuff

[Mathijs Kwik]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Eelco Dolstra
<eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 22/04/12 11:03, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
>> However, I have some local packages in my /etc/nixos/nixpkgs, and they
>> are not available anymore.
>> So I guess channels are not for people who want to have some local
>> modifications.
>> Does this mean we need to setup the old nixpkgs_sys symlink manually
>> after a new installation?
>
> You can do that, or pass "-f /path/to/my/nixpkgs" to nix-env.

And how will this work for nixos-rebuild? It doesn't know -f

>
>> And what does this mean for binary updates? Are they only available
>> through the channel from now on?
>
> It's the same as it's always been: if the path you're building is available in a
> subscribed channel, you get binaries, otherwise it's built from source.  So it
> depends on how much your source tree differs from the sources in the channel.
>
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