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authorQyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me>2024-04-27 23:09:02 -0600
committerQyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me>2024-04-29 01:19:21 +0000
commitee5a1b5a4c53918c029316fb9c961bee58e7d518 (patch)
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parentaae12f5848d930abbf938f480f9851e77a234505 (diff)
nix3-upgrade-nix: allow manually specifying new nix
This allows manually specifying a store path for the new Nix that gets linked into Nix's profile. Change-Id: Ib71711ffb466febf4a6892e3fdbda644e053770d
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+synopsis: add --store-path argument to `nix upgrade-nix`, to manually specify the Nix to upgrade to
+cls: 953
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+`nix upgrade-nix` by default downloads a manifest to find the new Nix version to upgrade to, but now you can specify `--store-path` to upgrade Nix to an arbitrary version from the Nix store.