Nixos fix channel to a specific revision

[igel]

How to pin the channel to a specific revision

• not via script imports but directly in the channels

[NobbZ]

Either use flakes or use the commits tarball URL as channel URL.

You will miss out some stuff though thats not available on GH.

[Sandro]

@igel

How to pin the channel to a specific revision

You can’t. There are only the commits available that hydra build.

[uep]

The answer given here is a suitable alternative:

A local repository instead of a Nix channel

hi On NixOS, you can use nix.nixPath = [ "nixpkgs=/path/to/git"]; (untested), or add nixpkgs=/path/to/git in your NIX_PATH environment variable