A few weeks ago I ran nix flake update to get the latest versions of CLI tools that I regularly use from nixos-unstable. atuin is one of those tools which I started using relatively recently and quickly became a huge fan of. I run it on all of my machines, and I can’t overstate how amazing it is to have all of my shell history across all of my machines synced.

After learning how to add an unstable overlay to nixpkgs, being able to override individual service modules from unstable was something that I still struggled with until fairly recently. Hopefully this helps someone else looking to do common-but-not-very-obvious operation.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 months ago

    You can import unstable as a package override

    I’ve had it in the past where I can specify in the package name (like pkgs.unstable.chromium). You’ll be able to do the same with service options as most allow you to set the package they use with a config option

    • JeezyOPEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      Yeah this is usually the way to go, I think I just got unlucky that this particular service on nixos-23.11 doesn’t have a package override option (but it will have in nixos-24.x releases!)