How do you pin without flakes? Can you make this pin as part of your config? I’ve only ever used flakes since I started, so I’m not familiar with how to do this without flakes.
I use git submodules and just have nixpkgs as a submodule of my config. That way I can easily tweak nixpkgs code locally and create new PRs to push upstream.
Updating is then easy because it’s handled by git.
Actually I have 2 submodules for nixpkgs (one for stable and one for unstable).
Downside of this is that the original clone I quite slow, but subsequent updates are speedy.
I saw people pinning to a particular commit via hash too (and then you just have some helper that auto-updates that hash).
I never used channels which have this state outside of config which is not great.
Yeah I know. What I wanted to say is that pinning even without flakes is easy and great.
Flakes experimental status is unfortunate.
How do you pin without flakes? Can you make this pin as part of your config? I’ve only ever used flakes since I started, so I’m not familiar with how to do this without flakes.
I use git submodules and just have nixpkgs as a submodule of my config. That way I can easily tweak nixpkgs code locally and create new PRs to push upstream.
Updating is then easy because it’s handled by git.
Actually I have 2 submodules for nixpkgs (one for stable and one for unstable).
Downside of this is that the original clone I quite slow, but subsequent updates are speedy.
I saw people pinning to a particular commit via hash too (and then you just have some helper that auto-updates that hash).
I never used channels which have this state outside of config which is not great.