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-rw-r--r--scripts/nix-profile.sh.in7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in b/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in
index 16eb754c5..06e7bdb7b 100644
--- a/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/nix-profile.sh.in
@@ -8,10 +8,15 @@ if test -n "$HOME"; then
@coreutils@/ln -s "$_NIX_DEF_LINK" "$NIX_LINK"
fi
+ export PATH=$NIX_LINK/bin:$PATH
+
# Subscribe the root user to the Nixpkgs channel by default.
if [ ! -e $HOME/.nix-channels ]; then
echo "http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable nixpkgs" > $HOME/.nix-channels
fi
- export PATH=$NIX_LINK/bin:$PATH
+ # Append ~/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs to $NIX_PATH so that
+ # <nixpkgs> paths work when the user has fetched the Nixpkgs
+ # channel.
+ export NIX_PATH=${NIX_PATH:+$NIX_PATH:}nixpkgs=$HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs
fi