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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-12-01T16·41+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-12-01T16·41+0000
commitb12b21825c949ef9b9327c6a0c9e2d5601aaf0b2 (patch)
treead58ff48bd39e25f3ea67c96a00a510b40fb7a77 /src/nix-env
parent23c38a04ccba4469b9aa98167532c236beeee0a0 (diff)
* Allow '<nixexpr>' syntax to be used in nix-instantiate, nix-build
  and nix-env, e.g.,

  $ nix-env -f '<nixpkgs>' -i patchelf

  or

  $ nix-build '<nixos/tests>' -A login.test

Diffstat (limited to 'src/nix-env')
-rw-r--r--src/nix-env/nix-env.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc b/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc
index 3dfecb2d7313..a8d9076cfb8d 100644
--- a/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc
+++ b/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ void run(Strings args)
         else if (arg == "--profile" || arg == "-p")
             globals.profile = absPath(needArg(i, args, arg));
         else if (arg == "--file" || arg == "-f")
-            globals.instSource.nixExprPath = absPath(needArg(i, args, arg));
+            globals.instSource.nixExprPath = lookupFileArg(globals.state, needArg(i, args, arg));
         else if (arg == "--switch-profile" || arg == "-S")
             op = opSwitchProfile;
         else if (arg == "--switch-generation" || arg == "-G")