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Eelco Dolstra c958902d44 * Added an option "nixpkgs.system" to specify the system type for
which NixOS should be built.  This is useful in NixOS network
  specifications, because it allows machines in the network to have
  different types, e.g.,

    {
      machine1 =
        { config, pkgs, ... }:
        { nixpkgs.system = "i686-linux";
          ... other config ...
        };

      machine2 =
        { config, pkgs, ... }:
        { nixpkgs.system = "x86_64-linux";
          ... other config ...
        };
    }

  It can also be useful in distributed NixOS tests.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=24823
2010-11-23 16:07:00 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell 9002335101 Making nixos handle the nixpkgs 'platform' parameter.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=20274
2010-02-27 18:37:12 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f1b1aefde * Added an option `nixpkgs.config' that allows the Nixpkgs options to
be set from the NixOS configuration.  For instance, you can say

    nixpkgs.config.firefox.enableGeckoMediaPlayer = true;

    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.firefox ];

  but the more interesting application is to apply global overrides to
  Nixpkgs throughout NixOS, e.g.

    nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs:
      { glibc = pkgs.glibc27;
        gcc = pkgs.gcc42;
      };

  would build the whole system with Glibc 2.7 and GCC 4.2.  (There are
  some issues with "useFromStdenv" in all-packages.nix that need to be
  fixed for packages in the stdenv bootstrap though.)

  The implementation of this option is kind of evil though due to the
  need to prevent a circularity between the evaluation of
  nixpkgs.config and the "pkgs" module argument.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=16866
2009-08-26 16:52:38 +00:00