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Name
nix registry add - add/replace flake in user flake registry
Synopsis
nix registry add [option…] from-url to-url
Examples
• Set the nixpkgs flake identifier to a specific branch of Nixpkgs:
# nix registry add nixpkgs github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-20.03
• Pin nixpkgs to a specific revision:
# nix registry add nixpkgs github:NixOS/nixpkgs/925b70cd964ceaedee26fde9b19cc4c4f081196a
• Add an entry that redirects a specific branch of nixpkgs to another fork:
# nix registry add nixpkgs/nixos-20.03 ~/Dev/nixpkgs
• Add nixpkgs pointing to github:nixos/nixpkgs to your custom flake registry:
nix registry add --registry ./custom-flake-registry.json nixpkgs github:nixos/nixpkgs
Description
This command adds an entry to the user registry that maps flake reference from-url to flake reference to-
url. If an entry for from-url already exists, it is overwritten.
Entries can be removed using nix registry remove.
Options
• --registry registry
The registry to operate on.
Common evaluation options
• --arg name expr
Pass the value expr as the argument name to Nix functions.
• --arg-from-file name path
Pass the contents of file path as the argument name to Nix functions.
• --arg-from-stdin name
Pass the contents of stdin as the argument name to Nix functions.
• --argstr name string
Pass the string string as the argument name to Nix functions.
• --eval-store store-url
The URL of the Nix store to use for evaluation, i.e. to store derivations (.drv files) and inputs
referenced by them.
• --impure
Allow access to mutable paths and repositories.
• --include / -I path
Add path to search path entries used to resolve lookup paths
This option may be given multiple times.
Paths added through -I take precedence over the nix-path configuration setting and the NIX_PATH
environment variable.
• --override-flake original-ref resolved-ref
Override the flake registries, redirecting original-ref to resolved-ref.
Logging-related options
• --debug
Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.
• --log-format format
Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.
• --print-build-logs / -L
Print full build logs on standard error.
• --quiet
Decrease the logging verbosity level.
• --verbose / -v
Increase the logging verbosity level.
Miscellaneous global options
• --help
Show usage information.
• --offline
Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.
• --option name value
Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).
• --refresh
Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.
• --repair
During evaluation, rewrite missing or corrupted files in the Nix store. During building, rebuild
missing or corrupted store paths.
• --version
Show version information.
Note
See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.
nix3-registry-add(1)