benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie
Nope! :)

When you're on a stable channel like 22.11, you get bugfix updates only, not feature releases. The "unstable" channel contains the newest updates.

I've got my config set up to let me use specific packages from unstable even though I'm on 22.11:

https://haste.benjaminhollon.com/adozuwinuj

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie
Happy to help figure that out if you need it.

joshthetechie, 1 year ago

@benjaminhollon I can see that added criteria to the beginning of your config file. Currently trying to figure out where the closing curly bracket is. :)

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie
The last line of the file?

joshthetechie, 1 year ago

@benjaminhollon Ah, I found my build issue.

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie
Good!

Hopefully this works for you!

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie
You could change your whole system to unstable if you want everything the most recent, but I do personally like the idea of having most things as stable as possible, but getting to cherry-pick which packages you actually need more up-to-date versions of.

joshthetechie, 1 year ago

@benjaminhollon Now I'm assuming this means I need to add the unstable channel as well, right?

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie
Oh, yes, you do. :)

In my system it's named "nixos-unstable"; if it ends up named something else for you (I think you specify the name when you add it), you'll need to change that in the config.

joshthetechie, 1 year ago

@benjaminhollon Now how do I define which packages I want to have pulled from unstable?

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie
Just put "unstable" before them like so:

unstable.tut
unstable.deno
unstable.aerc

Those are in the example I sent of my config, if you look down at where I specified the packages.

joshthetechie, 1 year ago

@benjaminhollon Heh! I see that now.

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie
I should have mentioned it; it's not something you necessarily go looking for if you don't already know. ;)

I think that should be it; run a sudo nixos-rebuild switch and you should be good.

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie
By the way, to see what package versions are available in which channels, you can check https://search.nixos.org/packages

There's also https://search.nixos.org/options to search available options.

codemonkeymike, 1 year ago

@benjaminhollon @joshthetechie go full unstable with us haha. :)

sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@codemonkeymike @joshthetechie
Noooooo.

joshthetechie, 1 year ago

@benjaminhollon @codemonkeymike Mike - It's tempting for sure. I was rocking the unstable branch for a bit.

joshthetechie, 1 year ago

@codemonkeymike @benjaminhollon Ha! I didn't realize I had to explicitly specify to allow unfree software in unstable. That bit me.

let
unstable = import <unstable> { config = { allowUnfree = true; }; };

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago

@joshthetechie @codemonkeymike
Ha I wouldn't have noticed that since I don't allow unfree. ;)

joshthetechie, 1 year ago

@benjaminhollon @codemonkeymike As always, someone on StackOverflow had the answer. :)