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| author | Dmitry Kalinkin <dmitry.kalinkin@gmail.com> | 2019-03-26T00·55-0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-03-26T00·55-0400 |
| commit | 75ec68f93ac98956552c06a7fdf4dc8da6841a65 (patch) | |
| tree | bb4d0d5f47065595e3217e47a9e1dae64bc7f951 | |
| parent | 5c05c238e60998b9fd276b3c4a39c860dc291200 (diff) | |
manual: mention the "channel:" shorthand for NIX_PATH
Bumped to 15.09 because older channels, when downloaded from nixos.org, require firefox to be accessed via `pkgs.firefox`
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml index 361d3e2b0330..c532ffddea22 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml @@ -52,10 +52,15 @@ nixpkgs=/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs-branch:/etc/nixos</screen> <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> to <screen> -nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz</screen> +nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-15.09.tar.gz</screen> tells Nix to download the latest revision in the Nixpkgs/NixOS - 14.12 channel.</para> + 15.09 channel.</para> + + <para>A following shorthand can be used to refer to the official channels: + + <screen>nixpkgs=channel:nixos-15.09</screen> + </para> <para>The search path can be extended using the <option linkend="opt-I">-I</option> option, which takes precedence over |