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| author | Francesco Gazzetta <fgaz@fgaz.me> | 2022-08-06 18:37:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> | 2022-08-15 12:27:35 +0200 |
| commit | 258277e89ab37daaf5d1e05fd88a08e8174a73b8 (patch) | |
| tree | db787f1968a90c1f0b658890a41c413f92ae9916 /builds.sr.ht | |
| parent | 5ddf7839dea9573c43695c6fe1cefaec671cf3b3 (diff) | |
| download | sr.ht-docs-258277e89ab37daaf5d1e05fd88a08e8174a73b8.tar.gz | |
compatibility.md: nixos: add tip about flakes
Looking at public nixos manifests from builds.sr.ht, many people pass
--extra-experimental-features to every nix invocation, which is
burdensome. We also got a couple of requests for enabling the
experimental "flakes" feature by default, to avoid using the flag.
Instead of deviating from the default upstream configuration, we suggest
a much cleaner way to set the option globally with a little known
environment variable.
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diff --git a/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md b/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md index 0c443a6..9dd94f4 100644 --- a/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md +++ b/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md @@ -860,6 +860,19 @@ However, like in a fresh NixOS installation, there is a root channel named which is the channel the image was built from. +**flakes** + +Like in a standard Nix(OS) installation, flakes are not enabled by default. +A good way to use flakes without having to pass `--extra-experimental-features` +to every `nix` invocation is to use the +[`NIX_CONFIG`](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/env-common.html#env-NIX_CONFIG) +environment variable instead: + +```yaml +environment: + NIX_CONFIG: "experimental-features = nix-command flakes" +``` + ## OpenBSD Maintainer: Jarkko Oranen <oranenj@iki.fi> |