[Nix-dev] Openssl and fast security updates

Mathijs Kwik mathijs at bluescreen303.nl
Thu Jun 5 18:36:28 CEST 2014


Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> writes:

> On 05/06/2014 17:49, Shea Levy wrote:
>> Pass in the system derivation and use nix-env --set to switch your
>> system to the resultant derivation.
>>
>> I have used it in the past but only for short periods while waiting for
>> a rebuild.
> Can't it be done in configuration.nix rather than command line? Would it
> be possible somehow?

I think you can use nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides for that.


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