[Nix-dev] subversion expression broken

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi peter,

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 20:07, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when trying to build subversion, I get the following (somewhat
> unhelpful) error message:
>
>  $ nix-env -i -A subversion
>  error: attribute `subversion' in selection path `subversion' not found

I assume that you may have used nix-channel.  In such case, you will
find in ~/.nix-defexpr a list of file/directories.  These should be
considered as attributes, so you may write something like:

$ nix-env -Ai nixpkgs_sys.subversion


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