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There's no command to just update all packages without changing the nixos version?
I'm a bit confused about what you actually want? Do you just want to update your packages, but stay on the same NixOS version? Just continue like before. Do you want to stay on your current version, but use some packages from the next version? That should also be possible if you somehow include that channel in your
configuration.nix(though I don't know how this would work in practice).Personally, I just run with
unstablethough, then the releases aren't that important.I think I thought unstable would mean, well, unstable. Like nightly releases or something. Would you use unstable for Firefox?
Update your channel & rebuild
Is that the equivalent to
apt updateandapt upgrade? I don't want toapt dist-upgradelolWhen not using flakes,
nixos-rebuild switch --upgradeis equivalent toapt update; apt upgrade. The equivalent todist-upgradeisnix-channel add $NEW-CHANNEL-URL nixosand then performing a regular update.Thanks. I've done switch many times after editing my config file. I've never added --upgrade!