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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2006-07-25T11·53+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2006-07-25T11·53+0000 |
| commit | 5744dd548039b9a8666a414dcb66629322e5af21 (patch) | |
| tree | ecae6153bee7c028bce7e978875a15984f18fe1c /src/nix-env/help.txt | |
| parent | 7a3a5d1608254565030ae8ceb593605962a2614e (diff) | |
* Support the --attr / -A flag in nix-env as well. So now we can do,
e.g., $ nix-env -i -A subversion xorg.xorgserver The main advantage over using symbolic names is that using attribute names is unambiguous and much, much faster.
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/nix-env/help.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix-env/help.txt b/src/nix-env/help.txt index e8319477415f..3287bab28eae 100644 --- a/src/nix-env/help.txt +++ b/src/nix-env/help.txt @@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ Install / upgrade / uninstall flags: --dry-run: show what would be done, but don't do it +Installation sources: + + --from-expression / -E EXPR...: evaluate expressions specified on + the command line; expressions should be functions that take the + default Nix expression as an argument + --from-profile PROFILE NAMES...: copy named packages from PROFILE + --attr / -A ATTRS...: select attributes by name from the default Nix + expression + Upgrade flags: --lt: upgrade if the current version is older (default) |