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| author | Robert Helgesson <robert@rycee.net> | 2017-06-15 18:11:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Robert Helgesson <robert@rycee.net> | 2017-09-08 12:38:05 +0200 |
| commit | 07b4228988711fd4a23547fa7a9bc78f56254135 (patch) | |
| tree | 52d9a767223afe666a0ccf86e6158a0b2478c867 /README.md | |
| parent | ad1eee7aa549c3294f48379e82b40e7f69036a6f (diff) | |
README: add instructions for `release-17.03` branch
(cherry picked from commit 46f03380923f923237c0530e6ca425e90dc226cd)
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0db0b313224..e98923e267d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ will write to your dconf store and cannot tell whether a configuration that it is about to be overwrite was from a previous Home Manager generation or from manual configuration. -Home Manager targets [NixOS][] version 17.03 (the current stable -version), it may or may not work on other Linux distributions and -NixOS versions. +Home Manager targets [NixOS][] unstable and NixOS version 17.03 (the +current stable version), it may or may not work on other Linux +distributions and NixOS versions. Also, the `home-manager` tool does not explicitly support rollbacks at the moment so if your home directory gets messed up you'll have to fix @@ -50,9 +50,18 @@ Currently the easiest way to install Home Manager is as follows: directory: ``` - $ git clone https://github.com/rycee/home-manager ~/.config/nixpkgs/home-manager + $ git clone -b master https://github.com/rycee/home-manager ~/.config/nixpkgs/home-manager ``` + or + + ``` + $ git clone -b release-17.03 https://github.com/rycee/home-manager ~/.config/nixpkgs/home-manager + ``` + + depending on whether you are tracking Nixpkgs unstable or version + 17.03. + 3. Add Home Manager to your user's Nixpkgs, for example by adding it to the `packageOverrides` section in your `~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix` file: |