diff --git a/doc/haskell-users-guide.xml b/doc/haskell-users-guide.xml
index e3903ddd411..e0dc89cc7ce 100644
--- a/doc/haskell-users-guide.xml
+++ b/doc/haskell-users-guide.xml
@@ -92,18 +92,18 @@ error: attribute ‘haskellPackages’ in selection path
$ nix-env -qaP coreutils
-nixos.pkgs.coreutils coreutils-8.23
+nixos.coreutils coreutils-8.23
If your system responds like that (most NixOS installatios will),
then the attribute path to haskellPackages is
- nixos.pkgs.haskellPackages. Thus, if you want to
+ nixos.haskellPackages. Thus, if you want to
use nix-env without giving an explicit
-f flag, then that's the way to do it:
-$ nix-env -qaP -A nixos.pkgs.haskellPackages
-$ nix-env -iA nixos.pkgs.haskellPackages.cabal-install
+$ nix-env -qaP -A nixos.haskellPackages
+$ nix-env -iA nixos.haskellPackages.cabal-install
Our current default compiler is GHC 7.10.x and the
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/ad-hoc-packages.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/ad-hoc-packages.xml
index e237e20c4ff..a147291c4f3 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/ad-hoc-packages.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/ad-hoc-packages.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ uninstall packages from the command line. For instance, to install
Mozilla Thunderbird:
-$ nix-env -iA nixos.pkgs.thunderbird
+$ nix-env -iA nixos.thunderbird
If you invoke this as root, the package is installed in the Nix
profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/default and visible
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/declarative-packages.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/declarative-packages.xml
index 6de38b452e2..dc2fa715097 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/declarative-packages.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/declarative-packages.xml
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ Nixpkgs will be built or downloaded as part of the system when you run
You can get a list of the available packages as follows:
$ nix-env -qaP '*' --description
-nixos.pkgs.firefox firefox-23.0 Mozilla Firefox - the browser, reloaded
+nixos.firefox firefox-23.0 Mozilla Firefox - the browser, reloaded
...
The first column in the output is the attribute
name, such as
-nixos.pkgs.thunderbird. (The
+nixos.thunderbird. (The
nixos prefix allows distinguishing between
different channels that you might have.)
diff --git a/nixos/lib/build-vms.nix b/nixos/lib/build-vms.nix
index 01d6b21bba9..a97bae57d9b 100644
--- a/nixos/lib/build-vms.nix
+++ b/nixos/lib/build-vms.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{ system, minimal ? false }:
-let pkgs = import ./nixpkgs.nix { config = {}; inherit system; }; in
+let pkgs = import ../.. { config = {}; inherit system; }; in
with pkgs.lib;
with import ../lib/qemu-flags.nix;
diff --git a/nixos/lib/channel-expr.nix b/nixos/lib/channel-expr.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 453bdd506b8..00000000000
--- a/nixos/lib/channel-expr.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{ system ? builtins.currentSystem }:
-
-{ pkgs =
- (import nixpkgs/default.nix { inherit system; })
- // { recurseForDerivations = true; };
-}
diff --git a/nixos/lib/make-channel.nix b/nixos/lib/make-channel.nix
index 1c6bf0897f4..fd805f7f943 100644
--- a/nixos/lib/make-channel.nix
+++ b/nixos/lib/make-channel.nix
@@ -10,19 +10,15 @@ pkgs.releaseTools.makeSourceTarball {
buildInputs = [ pkgs.nix ];
- expr = builtins.readFile ./channel-expr.nix;
-
distPhase = ''
rm -rf .git
echo -n $VERSION_SUFFIX > .version-suffix
echo -n ${nixpkgs.rev or nixpkgs.shortRev} > .git-revision
releaseName=nixos-$VERSION$VERSION_SUFFIX
mkdir -p $out/tarballs
- mkdir ../$releaseName
- cp -prd . ../$releaseName/nixpkgs
+ cp -prd . ../$releaseName
chmod -R u+w ../$releaseName
- ln -s nixpkgs/nixos ../$releaseName/nixos
- echo "$expr" > ../$releaseName/default.nix
+ ln -s . ../$releaseName/nixpkgs # hack to make ‘’ work
NIX_STATE_DIR=$TMPDIR nix-env -f ../$releaseName/default.nix -qaP --meta --xml \* > /dev/null
cd ..
chmod -R u+w $releaseName
diff --git a/nixos/lib/nixpkgs.nix b/nixos/lib/nixpkgs.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 10096f58c79..00000000000
--- a/nixos/lib/nixpkgs.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-/* Terrible backward compatibility hack to get the path to Nixpkgs
- from here. Usually, that's the relative path ‘../..’. However,
- when using the NixOS channel, resolves to a symlink to
- nixpkgs/nixos, so ‘../..’ doesn't resolve to the top-level Nixpkgs
- directory but one above it. So check for that situation. */
-if builtins.pathExists ../../.version then import ../..
-else if builtins.pathExists ../../nixpkgs then import ../../nixpkgs
-else abort "Can't find Nixpkgs, please set ‘NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=/path/to/nixpkgs’."
diff --git a/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/channel.nix b/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/channel.nix
index ca0e233f9e3..eccb19da5cb 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/channel.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/channel.nix
@@ -9,18 +9,17 @@ let
# We need a copy of the Nix expressions for Nixpkgs and NixOS on the
# CD. These are installed into the "nixos" channel of the root
- # user, as expected by nixos-rebuild/nixos-install.
+ # user, as expected by nixos-rebuild/nixos-install. FIXME: merge
+ # with make-channel.nix.
channelSources = pkgs.runCommand "nixos-${config.system.nixosVersion}"
- { expr = readFile ../../../lib/channel-expr.nix; }
+ { }
''
- mkdir -p $out/nixos
- cp -prd ${pkgs.path} $out/nixos/nixpkgs
- ln -s nixpkgs/nixos $out/nixos/nixos
+ mkdir -p $out
+ cp -prd ${pkgs.path} $out/nixos
chmod -R u+w $out/nixos
- rm -rf $out/nixos/nixpkgs/.git
- echo -n ${config.system.nixosVersion} > $out/nixos/nixpkgs/.version
- echo -n "" > $out/nixos/nixpkgs/.version-suffix
- echo "$expr" > $out/nixos/default.nix
+ ln -s . $out/nixos/nixpkgs
+ rm -rf $out/nixos/.git
+ echo -n ${config.system.nixosVersionSuffix} > $out/nixos/.version-suffix
'';
in
diff --git a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-checkout.nix b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-checkout.nix
index 9cdd8a74a18..07274e139f7 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-checkout.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-checkout.nix
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ let
if [ -z "$(type -P git)" ]; then
echo "installing Git..."
- nix-env -iA nixos.pkgs.git || nix-env -i git
+ nix-env -iA nixos.git
fi
# Move any old nixpkgs directories out of the way.
diff --git a/nixos/modules/misc/extra-arguments.nix b/nixos/modules/misc/extra-arguments.nix
index ff2ff7cd432..02ac6e7a59d 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/misc/extra-arguments.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/misc/extra-arguments.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
{
_module.args = {
- pkgs_i686 = import ../../lib/nixpkgs.nix {
+ pkgs_i686 = import ../../.. {
system = "i686-linux";
config.allowUnfree = true;
};
diff --git a/nixos/modules/misc/nixpkgs.nix b/nixos/modules/misc/nixpkgs.nix
index fb5516c953c..5eb38c510b4 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/misc/nixpkgs.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/misc/nixpkgs.nix
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ in
};
config = {
- _module.args.pkgs = import ../../lib/nixpkgs.nix {
+ _module.args.pkgs = import ../../.. {
system = config.nixpkgs.system;
inherit (config.nixpkgs) config;
diff --git a/nixos/tests/containers.nix b/nixos/tests/containers.nix
index c429f9c7b71..ce36a7e0588 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/containers.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/containers.nix
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ import ./make-test.nix ({ pkgs, ...} : {
$machine->fail("curl --fail --connect-timeout 2 http://$ip/ > /dev/null");
# Make sure we have a NixOS tree (required by ‘nixos-container create’).
- $machine->succeed("PAGER=cat nix-env -qa -A nixos.pkgs.hello >&2");
+ $machine->succeed("PAGER=cat nix-env -qa -A nixos.hello >&2");
# Create some containers imperatively.
my $id1 = $machine->succeed("nixos-container create foo --ensure-unique-name");