How to upgrade Hydra?

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I installed Hydra on NixOS using the suggested stanza in my configuration.nix:

  services.hydra = {
    enable = true;
    hydraURL = "http://localhost:3000"; # externally visible URL
    notificationSender = "hydra@localhost"; # e-mail of hydra service
    buildMachinesFiles = [];
    useSubstitutes = true;
  };

And it’s working great for me, but I’m stuck on Hydra 2021-05-03 (using nix-2.4pre20210601_5985b8b).

I can do nix build hydra to get a symlink to latest Hydra flake:

$ ls -la result
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ciadmin users 70 Nov 10 01:56 result -> /nix/store/i0f8d6y4qwg1c481hf0kn6kc9001fb8j-hydra-0.1.20211102.2dc6d58

But this doesn’t change anything about what NixOS runs.

How do I update my NixOS to be running a newer Hydra, or a Hydra built from source?

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You can use the services.hydra.package option to set which hydra package to use.

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