[Nix-dev] nix-env ignores NIX_PATH ?

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:00:27PM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote:
> Thanks, linking ~/proj/nix/nixpkgs into ~/.nix-defexpr works. But what
> is NIX_PATH for? man nix-env says:
> 
>        NIX_PATH
>            A colon-separated list of directories used to look up Nix
>            expressions enclosed in angle brackets
>            ...
>            The search path can be extended using the -I option, which takes
>            precedence over NIX_PATH.


nix-build, nix-instantiate and nixos-rebuild, I think.


> 2012/6/8 Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com>:
> > That's not what NIX_PATH is supposed to do. You are looking for `-f` option
> > (or create a link to your tree in ~/.nix-defexpr).
> >
> > --
> > Кирилл Елагин
> >
> >
> > 2012/6/2 Sergey Mironov <ierton at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Hi. I am trying to do
> >>
> >> $ export NIX_PATH=$HOME/proj/nix/nixpkgs
> >> $ nix-env -v -i smth
> >>
> >> where smth is a package available in my personal dev tree located in
> >> $HOME/proj/nix/nixpkgs. According to logs, nix-env starts to search in
> >> channel's source, than in depricated /etc/nixos/ tree, but doesn't
> >> attempt to look into my tree. What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Sergey
> >>
> >> PS
> >> nixos-rebuild (and thus nix-build) reacts on NIX_PATH correctly
> >> PPS
> >> $ nix-env --version
> >> nix-env (Nix) 1.0
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