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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-01-15T13·34+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-01-15T13·34+0100
commitbf0ad8aabca67b4faabe3a1ac3c57884ae9924f4 (patch)
treebb6f10c68820b1db215dedfc3b0f1d127e193ed4 /scripts
parentf5e5793cd2f32bc0f0d072b38cda742830f40f25 (diff)
nix-profile.sh: Add the Nixpkgs channel to $NIX_PATH
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/nix-profile.sh.in7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in b/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in
index 16eb754c5da9..06e7bdb7b808 100644
--- a/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in
@@ -8,10 +8,15 @@ if test -n "$HOME"; then
         @coreutils@/ln -s "$_NIX_DEF_LINK" "$NIX_LINK"
     fi
 
+    export PATH=$NIX_LINK/bin:$PATH
+
     # Subscribe the root user to the Nixpkgs channel by default.
     if [ ! -e $HOME/.nix-channels ]; then
         echo "http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable nixpkgs" > $HOME/.nix-channels
     fi
 
-    export PATH=$NIX_LINK/bin:$PATH
+    # Append ~/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs to $NIX_PATH so that
+    # <nixpkgs> paths work when the user has fetched the Nixpkgs
+    # channel.
+    export NIX_PATH=${NIX_PATH:+$NIX_PATH:}nixpkgs=$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs
 fi