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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-08-05 17:29:08 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-08-05 17:37:11 +0200
commit2cd7c1f19888ae73bf7ef0f41a45680cfb86334a (patch)
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Unify NixOS and Nixpkgs channel structure
This is primarily to ensure that

  -I nixpkgs=https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz

and

  -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-unstable.tar.gz

and

  -I nixpkgs=https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.xz

behave consistently.

It also allows installing packages via "nix-env -iA nixos.<pkg>"
rather than "nixos.pkgs.<pkg>". It would be even better to allow
"nixpkgs.<pkg>", but that requires a change to nix-channel.

Fixes #7659.
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/lib/make-channel.nix')
-rw-r--r--nixos/lib/make-channel.nix8
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/lib/make-channel.nix b/nixos/lib/make-channel.nix
index 1c6bf0897f4..fd805f7f943 100644
--- a/nixos/lib/make-channel.nix
+++ b/nixos/lib/make-channel.nix
@@ -10,19 +10,15 @@ pkgs.releaseTools.makeSourceTarball {
 
   buildInputs = [ pkgs.nix ];
 
-  expr = builtins.readFile ./channel-expr.nix;
-
   distPhase = ''
     rm -rf .git
     echo -n $VERSION_SUFFIX > .version-suffix
     echo -n ${nixpkgs.rev or nixpkgs.shortRev} > .git-revision
     releaseName=nixos-$VERSION$VERSION_SUFFIX
     mkdir -p $out/tarballs
-    mkdir ../$releaseName
-    cp -prd . ../$releaseName/nixpkgs
+    cp -prd . ../$releaseName
     chmod -R u+w ../$releaseName
-    ln -s nixpkgs/nixos ../$releaseName/nixos
-    echo "$expr" > ../$releaseName/default.nix
+    ln -s . ../$releaseName/nixpkgs # hack to make ‘<nixpkgs>’ work
     NIX_STATE_DIR=$TMPDIR nix-env -f ../$releaseName/default.nix -qaP --meta --xml \* > /dev/null
     cd ..
     chmod -R u+w $releaseName