On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dols...@logicblox.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 22/04/12 11:03, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > >> However, I have some local packages in my /etc/nixos/nixpkgs, and they >> are not available anymore. >> So I guess channels are not for people who want to have some local >> modifications. >> Does this mean we need to setup the old nixpkgs_sys symlink manually >> after a new installation? > > You can do that, or pass "-f /path/to/my/nixpkgs" to nix-env.
And how will this work for nixos-rebuild? It doesn't know -f > >> And what does this mean for binary updates? Are they only available >> through the channel from now on? > > It's the same as it's always been: if the path you're building is available > in a > subscribed channel, you get binaries, otherwise it's built from source. So it > depends on how much your source tree differs from the sources in the channel. > > -- > Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev