[Nix-dev] confused by the recent channels stuff

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 22/04/12 11:03, Mathijs Kwik wrote:

> However, I have some local packages in my /etc/nixos/nixpkgs, and they
> are not available anymore.
> So I guess channels are not for people who want to have some local
> modifications.
> Does this mean we need to setup the old nixpkgs_sys symlink manually
> after a new installation?

You can do that, or pass "-f /path/to/my/nixpkgs" to nix-env.

> And what does this mean for binary updates? Are they only available
> through the channel from now on?

It's the same as it's always been: if the path you're building is available in a
subscribed channel, you get binaries, otherwise it's built from source.  So it
depends on how much your source tree differs from the sources in the channel.

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