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by zach_mitchell 1203 days ago
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Any good resources on how to use flakes? I'm currently experimenting with having home-manager work via a flake but I haven't come across any good HOWTOs on common operations. For example, I'd like to update the flake dependencies similar to how I used to use "nix-channel --update" to freshen the dependencies used by home-manager.
Here you go:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes

https://tonyfinn.com/blog/nix-from-first-principles-flake-ed...

The second link appears to be down at the moment so check back later.

This is a script I run every monday when I come into work to get the latest updates on my system [1]. It prints the flake hash when it runs, so I can also rollback if there are issues.

[1] - https://gist.github.com/J-Swift/a4dad59843f1a1f512a72308031b...

"nix flake update" should be able to do that.