[Nix-dev] dist-upgrade? define channel declaratively?

[Domen Kožar]

http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-upgrading

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Matthew O'Gorman <mog at rldn.net> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I started playing with nixos-containers and have been very pleased so
> far.  I wanted to try running unstable in one, but haven't been able to
> figure out how to do so.  I tried setting these in my configuration of
> the container
>
> system.stateVersion = "unstable";
> system.defaultChannel = "https://nixos.org/channels/unstable";
>
> but it didn't change anything on a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
>
> How can one define and use channels in the config files?  How does
> someone do a dist-upgrade from 15.09 to unstable?  Sorry if these are
> dumb questions.  I can't seem to find answer in the manuals or in irc.
>
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