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-rw-r--r--src/libmain/common-args.cc4
-rw-r--r--tests/user-envs.sh3
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libmain/common-args.cc b/src/libmain/common-args.cc
index d3aac6aba..bcc05c2cd 100644
--- a/src/libmain/common-args.cc
+++ b/src/libmain/common-args.cc
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ MixCommonArgs::MixCommonArgs(const string & programName)
std::string cat = "config";
settings.convertToArgs(*this, cat);
+
+ // Backward compatibility hack: nix-env already had a --system flag.
+ if (programName == "nix-env") longFlags.erase("system");
+
hiddenCategories.insert(cat);
}
diff --git a/tests/user-envs.sh b/tests/user-envs.sh
index c4192fdc5..ba6392311 100644
--- a/tests/user-envs.sh
+++ b/tests/user-envs.sh
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ rm -f $HOME/.nix-defexpr
ln -s $(pwd)/user-envs.nix $HOME/.nix-defexpr
nix-env -qa '*' --description | grep -q silly
+# Query the system.
+nix-env -qa '*' --system | grep -q $system
+
# Install "foo-1.0".
nix-env -i foo-1.0