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| author | Qyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me> | 2024-05-01 18:51:16 -0600 |
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| committer | Qyriad <qyriad@qyriad.me> | 2024-05-02 12:02:28 -0600 |
| commit | f88423813f042cf40d9207409cd05cf4b75d87a0 (patch) | |
| tree | d02a8cdc30d1978f79b8f98ba199225551ece77e /src/nix/profile-list.md | |
| parent | 1425aa0b7cd0d3477589f75bea4fb9c74e057fed (diff) | |
nix3-profile: allow using human-readable names to select packages
These names are parsed from the URL provided for that package
Based off of commit 257b768436a0e8ab7887f9b790c5b92a7fe51ef5
Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8678
Co-authored-by: Felix Uhl <felix.uhl@outlook.com>
Change-Id: I76d5f9cfb11d3d2915b3dd1db21d7bb49e91f4fb
Diffstat (limited to 'src/nix/profile-list.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/nix/profile-list.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/profile-list.md b/src/nix/profile-list.md index 5d7fcc0ec..d807a69c6 100644 --- a/src/nix/profile-list.md +++ b/src/nix/profile-list.md @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ R""( ```console # nix profile list + Name: gdb Index: 0 Flake attribute: legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.gdb Original flake URL: flake:nixpkgs @@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ R""( Store paths: /nix/store/indzcw5wvlhx6vwk7k4iq29q15chvr3d-gdb-11.1 Index: 1 + Name: blender-bin Flake attribute: packages.x86_64-linux.default Original flake URL: flake:blender-bin Locked flake URL: github:edolstra/nix-warez/91f2ffee657bf834e4475865ae336e2379282d34?dir=blender @@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ R""( # nix build github:edolstra/nix-warez/91f2ffee657bf834e4475865ae336e2379282d34?dir=blender#packages.x86_64-linux.default ``` - will build the package with index 1 shown above. + will build the package with name blender-bin shown above. # Description @@ -34,10 +36,13 @@ This command shows what packages are currently installed in a profile. For each installed package, it shows the following information: -* `Index`: An integer that can be used to unambiguously identify the +* `Name`: A unique name used to unambiguously identify the package in invocations of `nix profile remove` and `nix profile upgrade`. +* `Index`: An integer that can be used to unambiguously identify the package in invocations of `nix profile remove` and `nix profile upgrade`. + (*Deprecated, will be removed in a future version in favor of `Name`.*) + * `Flake attribute`: The flake output attribute path that provides the package (e.g. `packages.x86_64-linux.hello`). |