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<title>Keeping NixOS up to date</title> <title>Keeping NixOS up to date</title>
<para>The currently best way to keep your NixOS installation up to <para>The currently best way to keep your NixOS installation up to
date is to track the NixOS Subversion repository. You should replace date is to track the NixOS Subversion repository. The program
the static NixOS/Nixpkgs sources installed in <command>nixos-checkout</command> does that for you. It will
<filename>/etc/nixos</filename> with a Subversion checkout. The check if the NixOS/NixPkgs sources are present and if they are under a
program <command>nixos-checkout</command> does that for you (and it version control system (VCS) before updating them to the latest version. If your
also installs Subversion into your current profile).</para> sources are not under a VCS, then you can rename them before
running <command>nixos-checkout</command> which will checkout the sources.</para>
<para>To build the latest and greatest, do <para>To build the latest and greatest, do
<screen> <screen>
$ svn up /etc/nixos/nixos $ nixos-checkout
$ svn up /etc/nixos/nixpkgs
$ nixos-rebuild switch</screen> $ nixos-rebuild switch</screen>
(Or instead of <literal>switch</literal>, use any of the alternatives (Or instead of <literal>switch</literal>, use any of the alternatives
shown in <xref linkend="sec-changing-config"/>.)</para> shown in <xref linkend="sec-changing-config"/>.)</para>
<para>To customize your VCS or to handle more repositories with
<command>nixos-checkout</command>, you can have a look at the
options <option>installer.repos.nixos</option>
and <option>installer.repos.nixpkgs</option>.</para>
</section> </section>