[Nix-dev] How to upgrade when Nix is too old to evaluate nixpkgs

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 30 June 2016 at 17:37, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
> With nodePackages.jsontool installed:
>
> $ nix-env -i $(curl -LH "Accept: Application/JSON" http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/build.x86_64-linux/latest | json buildoutputs.out.path)

That's a neat trick. It would be great if something like that could be
done by Nix(OS) itself.

- Bjørn