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nix3-registry-add

Name
Synopsis
Examples
Description
Options
Common evaluation options
Logging-related options
Miscellaneous global options

Warning
This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.

Name

nix registry add - add/replace flake in user flake registry

Synopsis

nix registry add [ option …] from-url to-url

Examples

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Set the nixpkgs flake identifier to a specific branch of Nixpkgs:

# nix registry add nixpkgs github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-20.03

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Pin nixpkgs to a specific revision:

# nix registry add nixpkgs github:NixOS/nixpkgs/925b70cd964ceaedee26fde9b19cc4c4f081196a

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Add an entry that redirects a specific branch of nixpkgs to another fork:

# nix registry add nixpkgs/nixos-20.03 ~/Dev/nixpkgs

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Add nixpkgs pointing to github:nixos/nixpkgs to your custom flake registry:

nix registry add --registry ./custom-flake-registry.json nixpkgs github:nixos/nixpkgs

Description

This command adds an entry to the user registry that maps flake reference from-url to flake reference to-url . If an entry for from-url already exists, it is overwritten.

Entries can be removed using nix registry remove .

Options

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--registry registry

The registry to operate on.

Common evaluation options

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--arg name expr

Pass the value expr as the argument name to Nix functions.

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--arg-from-file name path

Pass the contents of file path as the argument name to Nix functions.

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--arg-from-stdin name

Pass the contents of stdin as the argument name to Nix functions.

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--argstr name string

Pass the string string as the argument name to Nix functions.

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--eval-store store-url

The URL of the Nix store to use for evaluation, i.e. to store derivations (.drv files) and inputs referenced by them.

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--impure

Allow access to mutable paths and repositories.

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--include / -I path

Add path to search path entries used to resolve lookup paths

This option may be given multiple times.

Paths added through -I take precedence over the nix-path configuration setting and the NIX_PATH environment variable .

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--override-flake original-ref resolved-ref

Override the flake registries, redirecting original-ref to resolved-ref .

Logging-related options

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--debug

Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.

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--log-format format

Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.

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--print-build-logs / -L

Print full build logs on standard error.

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--quiet

Decrease the logging verbosity level.

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--verbose / -v

Increase the logging verbosity level.

Miscellaneous global options

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--help

Show usage information.

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--offline

Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.

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--option name value

Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).

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--refresh

Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

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--repair

During evaluation, rewrite missing or corrupted files in the Nix store. During building, rebuild missing or corrupted store paths.

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--version

Show version information.

Note

See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.