Re: [Nix-dev] Temporarily not using ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix

2017-03-26 Thread Eike
Oh, thank you! and sorry for not doing the grep myself… :/ Linus Heckemann writes: > On 26/03/17 16:30, Eike wrote: >> Is there a way to temporarily disable evaluating ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix? >> I looked at http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-packageconfig, but >> couldn't find anything relat

Re: [Nix-dev] Temporarily not using ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix

2017-03-26 Thread Linus Heckemann
On 26/03/17 16:30, Eike wrote: > Is there a way to temporarily disable evaluating ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix? > I looked at http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-packageconfig, but > couldn't find anything related. See pkgs/top-level/impure.nix (found by grepping nixpkgs for .nixpkgs/config.nix): > co

[Nix-dev] Temporarily not using ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix

2017-03-26 Thread Eike
Hello, I ocassionally search packages from previous nixos versions using for example this command: nix-env -f https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-16.09.tar.gz -qaP |grep linuxPackages But often that won't work, because my ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix refers to my customized p