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Commits on Mar 26, 2019

  1. manual: mention the "channel:" shorthand for NIX_PATH 

    Bumped to 15.09 because older channels, when downloaded from
nixos.org, require firefox to be accessed via `pkgs.firefox`
    @veprbl
    veprbl authored Mar 26, 2019
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  2. Merge pull request #2744 from veprbl/patch-8 

    manual: mention the "channel:" shorthand for NIX_PATH
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  1. +7 −2 doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml
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@@ -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