Open colemickens opened 4 years ago
as a workaround, add /<commit_id>
to the github URL. Eg: github:colemickens/nixcfg/a00c2b2e40f8c0a483883370c44fb45c7802ca20#hosts.testipfsvm
You can pass --refresh
to force a redownload.
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We probably want to check the current git commit for all the git sources (github, git+https, git+ssh, git+file), right?
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You can pass
--refresh
to force a redownload.
Is there any equivalent for that on nixos-rebuild? Even if I add --refresh, nix doesn't seem to notice that the repo I'm importing in my flake changed so it just rebuilds from cache
@LuNeder maybe the following will help: --option eval-cache false
Describe the bug
I need to be able to tell users that they can run the listed command.
But I really can't have much faith in which version they're getting because of the type of caching that's going on. I'm making fixes, pushing, and the command just spits out the same error. I don't see an intuitive way to bust the cast. I think it ought to be checking much more aggressively when given external references like
github:
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nix-env --version
outputnix-env (Nix) 3.0pre20200829_f156513
nix (Nix) 3.0pre20200829_f156513
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