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author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2007-09-17T16·08+0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2007-09-17T16·08+0000 |
commit | 055608227f5a003825a905b0eb2aea39cba5ca16 (patch) | |
tree | fd3f4a9e9e6dd0df64e208b74f84ac7d79a67808 /doc/manual/nix-hash.xml | |
parent | 3339f854473863c8780e537626f457be0b2b33e2 (diff) |
* nix-env: allow ~/.nix-defexpr to be a directory. If it is, then the
Nix expressions in that directory are combined into an attribute set {file1 = import file1; file2 = import file2; ...}, i.e. each Nix expression is an attribute with the file name as the attribute name. Also recurses into directories. * nix-env: removed the "--import" (-I) option which set the ~/.nix-defexpr symlink. * nix-channel: don't use "nix-env --import", instead symlink ~/.nix-defexpr/channels. So finally nix-channel --update doesn't override any default Nix expressions but combines with them. This means that you can have (say) a local Nixpkgs SVN tree and use it as a default for nix-env: $ ln -s .../path-to-nixpkgs-tree ~/.nix-defexpr/nixpkgs_svn and be subscribed to channels (including Nixpkgs) at the same time. (If there is any ambiguity, the -A flag can be used to disambiguate, e.g. "nix-env -i -A nixpkgs_svn.pan".)
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