Merge pull request #2744 from veprbl/patch-8

manual: mention the "channel:" shorthand for NIX_PATH
2019-03-25 21:49:48 -04:00
parent 5c05c238e6 75ec68f93a
commit 6e9e34ea1f
1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -52,10 +52,15 @@ nixpkgs=/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs-branch:/etc/nixos</screen>
    <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> to

    <screen>
-nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz</screen>
+nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-15.09.tar.gz</screen>

    tells Nix to download the latest revision in the Nixpkgs/NixOS
-    14.12 channel.</para>
+    15.09 channel.</para>
+
+    <para>A following shorthand can be used to refer to the official channels:
+    
+    <screen>nixpkgs=channel:nixos-15.09</screen>
+    </para>

    <para>The search path can be extended using the <option
    linkend="opt-I">-I</option> option, which takes precedence over