Hello, Am Dienstag, den 09.08.2016, 09:16 -0700 schrieb Colin Z: > Hi all, I'm trying to get NixOS running on a Raspberry Pi 3 but ran > into an issue with an outdated Nix > > I used the first image linked at https://nixos.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi > and after putting the latest firmware from > https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware (including kernel7.img) on the > boot partition, I was able to boot into NixOS. > > I did a nix-channel --update, but when I tried to install some > packages I got an error about Nixpkgs needing Nix >= 1.10 and the > image appears to only have Nix 1.5.1 > > > The links given were broken when I tried, and it says to contact the > email list if you're on ARM: > > https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_update_when_Nix_is_too_old_to_evaluate_ > Nixpkgs > > What's the best way to get a more current version of Nix installed? >
Certainly not the fastest, but a working way is to move through all the channels (not sure if you have to start with 15.03 or 15.09) and recompile the whole system everytime. Basically: # nix-channel --remove nixos # nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-15.09-small nixos # nix-rebuild boot --upgrade # reboot [back to start with the next version] My pi2 took a couple of days to munch through that. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev