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When not using flakes, nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade is equivalent to apt update; apt upgrade. The equivalent to dist-upgrade is nix-channel add $NEW-CHANNEL-URL nixos and then performing a regular update.
Update your channel & rebuild
Is that the equivalent to
apt update
andapt upgrade
? I don’t want toapt dist-upgrade
lolWhen not using flakes,
nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
is equivalent toapt update; apt upgrade
. The equivalent todist-upgrade
isnix-channel add $NEW-CHANNEL-URL nixos
and then performing a regular update.Thanks. I’ve done switch many times after editing my config file. I’ve never added --upgrade!