[Nix-dev] nixpkgs-unstable

[Arseniy Seroka]

Using nixos-unstable-small I have to build locally lots of pkgs :(

But can I "mix" nixpkgs-unstable and nixos-unstable? Using the first one
for nix-env and the second one for sudo nixos-rebuild?

2015-03-24 23:32 GMT+03:00 Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si>:

> use nixos-unstable-small channel if you want to move fast(er). You can't
> use nixpkgs channel for nixos.
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Arseniy Seroka <ars.seroka at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> Trying to use nixpkgs-unstable as main channel.
>>
>> jaga {0} ~ sudo nix-channel --add
>> http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable nixos
>> jaga {0} ~ sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
>> downloading Nix expressions from ‘
>> http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-15.05pre59184.e07ea5c/nixexprs.tar.xz
>> ’...
>>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
>>  Current
>>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
>>  Speed
>>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
>>     0
>> unpacking channels...
>> error: file ‘nixpkgs/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-rebuild.sh’ was
>> not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I)
>> building Nix...
>> error: file ‘nixpkgs/nixos’ was not found in the Nix search path (add it
>> using $NIX_PATH or -I)
>> error: file ‘nixpkgs/nixos’ was not found in the Nix search path (add it
>> using $NIX_PATH or -I)
>> error: file ‘nixpkgs’ was not found in the Nix search path (add it using
>> $NIX_PATH or -I)
>> /tmp/nixos-rebuild.GAS7Lk/nix
>> error: file ‘nixpkgs’ was not found in the Nix search path (add it using
>> $NIX_PATH or -I)
>> building the system configuration...
>> error: file ‘nixpkgs/nixos’ was not found in the Nix search path (add it
>> using $NIX_PATH or -I)
>> ^C
>> error: interrupted by the user
>>
>> jaga {130} ~ echo $NIX_PATH
>>
>> nixos=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixos:nixpkgs=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos:nixos-config=/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
>> jaga {0} ~ ls /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/
>> channel-name  default.nix  lib/          nixos/  README.md
>> COPYING       doc/         maintainers/  pkgs/   svn-revision
>>
>>
>> So I can't do nixos-rebuild. But nix-env works fine.
>> What I'm doing wrong?
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>> Arseniy Seroka
>>
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>


-- 
Sincerely,
Arseniy Seroka
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