[Nix-dev] Changing Nix expressions / Git branches during a build

Bryan Gardiner bog at khumba.net
Mon Sep 7 19:02:14 CEST 2015


On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 18:57:56 +0200
Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 07/09/15 18:13, Bryan Gardiner wrote:
> 
> > I'm wondering if it's safe to take a single nixpkgs repository, kick
> > off a build (nix-build, nixos-rebuild, etc.), and then once packages
> > are compiling, to change Git branches, edit things, and build more
> > packages without affecting the existing build.
> 
> Yes, that's completely safe.

Great, thanks!

- Bryan
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