[Nix-dev] How to test my service definition without actually "installing" it?

[Tomasz Kontusz]

I'm so bad at sending mail to the list :-( still learning to reply-all.

Yes, that would rebuild the whole system. I normally build on top of nixos-unstable (there's a separate repo with branches for channels) instead of master, this helps with rebuilds.
If you don't want to rebuild your whole system you can use nixops with local containers - that's how I normally test services that I won't run locally.

BTW thanks for working on taskd service, I'd love to use one :-)

Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de> napisał:
>(Also send to the list, as you did not reply to the list as well)
>
>But I need to specify my git clone of the repo, right?
>
>And when doing this, my whole system gets rebuild using the
>definitions from master, so almost everything.
>
>I guess I can "fix" this by rebasing onto the unstable tracker git
>branches, can I?
>
>On 14-05-2015 10:17:44, Tomasz Kontusz wrote:
>> You can use nixos-rebuild test to switch without polluting grub
>> 
>> Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de> napisał:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I'm currently working on
>> >
>> >    https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/7771
>> >
>> >(taskwarrior-server service definition for nixos)
>> >
>> >How to test my service definition without installing it aka. without
>> >polluting my boot manager with boot entries? How to "install" it
>> >without rebuilding my complete system because of the switch from
>> >the nixos-unstable channel to the "master branch" channel.
>> >
>> >Or am I getting something wrong with the last sentence?
>> >
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>> >Matthias Beyer
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