From 9451ef3731904090d7c8476137960a3fb9d4679d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 17:09:42 +0200 Subject: Allow URLs in the Nix search path E.g. to install "hello" from the latest Nixpkgs: $ nix-build '' -A hello -I nixpkgs=https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz Or to install a specific version of NixOS: $ nixos-rebuild switch -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/63def04891a0abc328b1b0b3a78ec02c58f48583.tar.gz --- src/nix-env/nix-env.cc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/nix-env/nix-env.cc') diff --git a/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc b/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc index 10b95dad168c..5cf41e844e83 100644 --- a/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc +++ b/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc @@ -1423,6 +1423,8 @@ int main(int argc, char * * argv) if (!op) throw UsageError("no operation specified"); + store = openStore(); + globals.state = std::shared_ptr(new EvalState(searchPath)); globals.state->repair = repair; @@ -1441,8 +1443,6 @@ int main(int argc, char * * argv) : canonPath(settings.nixStateDir + "/profiles/default"); } - store = openStore(); - op(globals, opFlags, opArgs); globals.state->printStats(); -- cgit 1.4.1