• CaniballShiaLaBuffB
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    1 year ago

    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.