From: Scott Worley Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00:17 +0000 (-0700) Subject: README X-Git-Tag: 1.0 X-Git-Url: http://git.scottworley.com/pinch/commitdiff_plain/597bd03a184f89d9f46271dfb18da72812f8a8b7?ds=inline README --- diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0c1ebc --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +# Pinch + +PIN CHannels - a simple drop-in replacement for `nix-channel --update`. + +Example usage, being invoked on the example "channels" file included here: + + $ python3 pinch.py pin channels + $ python3 pinch.py update channels + + +The first "pin" command will add these fields to the file: + + [nixos] + channel_url = https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-20.03 + git_repo = https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git + git_ref = nixos-20.03 + +release_name = nixos-20.03beta1155.29eddfc36d7 + +tarball_url = https://releases.nixos.org/nixos/20.03/nixos-20.03beta1155.29eddfc36d7/nixexprs.tar.xz + +tarball_sha256 = 9c1d182af2af64e5e8799e256a4a6dc1fed324ba06cb5f76c938dc63b64f0959 + +git_revision = 29eddfc36d720dcc4822581175217543b387b1e8 + + [nixos-hardware] + git_repo = https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware.git + git_ref = master + +release_name = nixos-hardware.git-1585241157-edb7199b5c4 + +git_revision = edb7199b5c4f1db34a7253d4cabf6cf690521a92 + +The second "update" command applies these changes to your nix channels, like `nix-channel --update` does. + +Advantages over nix-channel: + + * Deploy the exact same channel content to multiple machines. + * Store your pin file in revision control for more powerful rollback mechanism than `nix-channel --rollback`. + * Chanel contents are verified by hash before being installed.