[Nix-dev] Hydra nixpkgs-unstable channel lagging behind?

[Rickard Nilsson]

Den 2012-04-18 18:06:10 skrev Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>:

> Hi,
>
> On 18/04/12 17:45, Rickard Nilsson wrote:
>
>> So, if I maintain a set of changes to nixos and nixpkgs in /etc/nixos I  
>> have to build and activate nixos manually, rather than with  
>> nixos-rebuild?
>
> You just have to add "-I /etc/nixos" to the nixos-rebuild call.

Ah, thanks!

>> It would be fancy if Hydra could tag a git repository with the correct  
>> combination of nixos and nixpkgs submodules for each succesful NixOS  
>> build. Then I could rebase my repos and take advantage of the hydra  
>> builds.
>
> Yes, that's the goal (after the Git migration).  Or rather the  
> NixOS/Nixpkgs
> mirror script would do that (not Hydra).

Great!

   / Rickard