NixOS modules: Difference between revisions
imported>Fzakaria Added under the hood explanation by Infinisil |
imported>Jtojnar avoid deprecated github:NixOS/nixpkgs-channels |
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If you're developing on top of master, this will potentially cause the compilation of lots of packages, since master | If you're developing on top of master, this will potentially cause the compilation of lots of packages, since changes on master might not cached on cache.nixos.org yet. To avoid that, you can develop your module on top of the <code>nixos-unstable</code> [[Channels|channel]], tracked by the eponymous branch in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs: | ||
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git checkout -b mymodule upstream/nixos-unstable | |||
git checkout -b mymodule | |||
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