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

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Fri Jan 15 11:38:53 CET 2016


Hi,

On 15/01/16 08:20, Vladimír Čunát wrote:

> On 01/13/2016 10:40 PM, Matthew O'Gorman wrote:
>> How can one define and use channels in the config files?
> 
> I believe you want to read this:
> http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/nixos.manual.x86_64-linux/latest/download/2/nixos/index.html#module-misc-nixos

I'm not so fond of how that feature is implemented:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/a5992ad61b314104aff7e28a41ce101a1b0e7c35#commitcomment-14986820

so I may get rid of it for 16.03, before we end up having to maintain it forever.

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