[Nix-dev] nix-env ignores NIX_PATH ?

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Sun Jun 17 17:08:46 CEST 2012


In nixos/nixpkgs sourec you'll find <nixpgks> and <nixos> like
placeholders. They are defined by NIX_PATH="nixpkgs=foo:nixos=bar".

The reason is that in the past /etc/nixos/{nixpkgs,nixos} has been the
source repostiories to build up nixos (This may have changed - I'm not
up to date).

Marc Weber


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