Is there a way or program to make the output of nixos-rebuild more informative? I know that there are wrappers for apt and was wondering, if there is some equivalent for nixos-rebuild. For example, i find this output not very informative: these 103 paths will be fetched (423.69 MiB download, 1619.…

TLDR for Noobs like me, add the following to configuration.nix: nix.settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" ]; system.activationScripts.diff = '' if [[ -e /run/current-system ]]; then if [[ -n $(${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix store diff-closures /run/current-system "$systemConfig") ]]; the…

How to make nixos-rebuild output more informative?

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nomeata February 17, 2023, 2:48pm 5

For listing changes after upgrading, I find this useful:

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