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authorDomen Kožar <domen@dev.si>2016-08-10 15:38:57 +0200
committerDomen Kožar <domen@dev.si>2016-08-10 15:42:05 +0200
commit230fed52fdc244b575301ef9f74e877c56cc586d (patch)
tree0dbaa17fd2d7d03fbbf91fe7316a6241bf4d2008
parentflatten: drastically improve performance, see #17626 (diff)
downloadnixpkgs-origin/nix-upgrade.tar.gz
Provide correct instructions how to upgrade Nix without nixpkgs.origin/nix-upgrade
fixes #15344
-rw-r--r--default.nix18
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/default.nix b/default.nix
index 8171f4149d2f..50d4be42237d 100644
--- a/default.nix
+++ b/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,23 @@ let requiredVersion = import ./lib/minver.nix; in
if ! builtins ? nixVersion || builtins.compareVersions requiredVersion builtins.nixVersion == 1 then
- abort "This version of Nixpkgs requires Nix >= ${requiredVersion}, please upgrade! See https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_update_when_Nix_is_too_old_to_evaluate_Nixpkgs"
+# following derivations are updated based on http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nix/maintenance/latest-eval
+
+ abort ''
+ This version of Nixpkgs requires Nix >= ${requiredVersion}, please upgrade:
+
+ On x86_64-linux:
+
+ $ nix-env -i /nix/store/mln2lswvkyx6x7j6pcx80cyf06fsc12m-nix-1.11.2
+
+ On i686-linux:
+
+ $ nix-env -i /nix/store/fpa7k4ra0jcy1jq3cig5738dmmqsqyjc-nix-1.11.2
+
+ On x86_64-darwin:
+
+ $ nix-env -i /nix/store/mcfhmajqw93xs4bgk55822gag11qs7yk-nix-1.11.2
+ ''
else