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You can fetch Nixpkgs with an empty <code>NIX_PATH</code>. This | You can fetch Nixpkgs with an empty <code>NIX_PATH</code>. This | ||
comes in handy if you want to remove impure references to the <code>NIX_PATH</code> from | comes in handy if you want to remove impure references to the <code>NIX_PATH</code> from |
Revision as of 16:32, 4 April 2024
You can fetch Nixpkgs with an empty NIX_PATH
. This
comes in handy if you want to remove impure references to the NIX_PATH
from
your code base.
To do so, you can use builtins.fetchTarball
, like this:
let
nixpkgs = builtins.fetchTarball {
url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/3389f23412877913b9d22a58dfb241684653d7e9.tar.gz";
sha256 = "0wgm7sk9fca38a50hrsqwz6q79z35gqgb9nw80xz7pfdr4jy9pf8";
};
pkgs = import nixpkgs { config = {}; };
in
...
… replacing 3389f2…
with the desired revision of Nixpkgs and replacing 0wgm7s…
with the corresponding SHA256 hash.
You can use the following command to obtain the correct SHA256 hash to use if you prefer not to use trial and error:
$ nix-prefetch-url --unpack "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/${REVISION}.tar.gz"