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author | Vincent Ambo <mail@tazj.in> | 2022-05-18T15·39+0200 |
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committer | clbot <clbot@tvl.fyi> | 2022-05-19T14·08+0000 |
commit | d127f9bd0e7b9b2e0df2de8a2227f77c0907468d (patch) | |
tree | 68455040d88b8e0c2817601db88ede450873ff8e /third_party/nix/doc/manual/packages/channels.xml | |
parent | c85291c602ac666421627d6934ebc6d5be1b93e1 (diff) |
chore(3p/nix): unvendor tvix 0.1 r/4098
Nothing is using this now, and we'll likely never pick this up again, but we learned a lot in the process. Every now and then this breaks in some bizarre way on channel bumps and it's just a waste of time to maintain that. Change-Id: Idcf2f5acd4ca7070ce18d7149cbfc0d967dc0a44 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/5632 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org> Reviewed-by: lukegb <lukegb@tvl.fyi> Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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diff --git a/third_party/nix/doc/manual/packages/channels.xml b/third_party/nix/doc/manual/packages/channels.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 15c119fcb1f9..000000000000 --- a/third_party/nix/doc/manual/packages/channels.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ -<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" - xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" - xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" - version="5.0" - xml:id="sec-channels"> - -<title>Channels</title> - -<para>If you want to stay up to date with a set of packages, it’s not -very convenient to manually download the latest set of Nix expressions -for those packages and upgrade using <command>nix-env</command>. -Fortunately, there’s a better way: <emphasis>Nix -channels</emphasis>.</para> - -<para>A Nix channel is just a URL that points to a place that contains -a set of Nix expressions and a manifest. Using the command <link -linkend="sec-nix-channel"><command>nix-channel</command></link> you -can automatically stay up to date with whatever is available at that -URL.</para> - -<para>You can “subscribe” to a channel using -<command>nix-channel --add</command>, e.g., - -<screen> -$ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen> - -subscribes you to a channel that always contains that latest version -of the Nix Packages collection. (Subscribing really just means that -the URL is added to the file <filename>~/.nix-channels</filename>, -where it is read by subsequent calls to <command>nix-channel ---update</command>.) You can “unsubscribe” using <command>nix-channel ---remove</command>: - -<screen> -$ nix-channel --remove nixpkgs -</screen> -</para> - -<para>To obtain the latest Nix expressions available in a channel, do - -<screen> -$ nix-channel --update</screen> - -This downloads and unpacks the Nix expressions in every channel -(downloaded from <literal><replaceable>url</replaceable>/nixexprs.tar.bz2</literal>). -It also makes the union of each channel’s Nix expressions available by -default to <command>nix-env</command> operations (via the symlink -<filename>~/.nix-defexpr/channels</filename>). Consequently, you can -then say - -<screen> -$ nix-env -u</screen> - -to upgrade all packages in your profile to the latest versions -available in the subscribed channels.</para> - -</chapter> |