Not completely ideal, but you can quickly find out the versions with nix-eval as well:
~ % nix eval nixpkgs.digikam.version
"6.2.0"
~ % nix eval nixpkgs.digikam5.version
"6.2.0"
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I know that there are severall ways to figure that out. My point is that it’s not obvious from the name of the attribute.
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I did a talk at nixcon called nix at home last year that briefly covered how to use nix on non-nixos to generate systemd services. An Introduction to Nix for Developers
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Any chance you could turn this into a nixos.wiki page?
I’ve been wondering if this was possible for a while now and it’d be nice to have a simple intro page for it
Woops, I meant to reply directly to disassembler, any chance you could do a simple nixos.wiki page on generating systemd services on non-nixos distros?
Is this something that is expected to work in general with nix or more of a quick hack?
Most (all?) nix[- ]* commands have a -v | --verbose switch (see man page excerpt below from man nix-shell and man nix-env), and I believe level 2 should be the default, just to see if there is something happening or not.
--verbose / -v
Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic
messages printed on standard error. For each Nix
operation, the information printed on standard
output is well-defined; any diagnostic information
is printed on standard error, never on standard
output.
This option may be specified repeatedly. Currently,
the following verbosity levels exist:
0
“Errors only”: only print messages explaining why
the Nix invocation failed.
1
“Informational”: print useful messages about what Nix
is doing. This is the default.
2
“Talkative”: print more informational messages.
3
“Chatty”: print even more informational messages.
4
“Debug”: print debug information.
5
“Vomit”: print vast amounts of debug information.