Name¶

nix registry pin - pin a flake to its current version or to the current version of a flake URL

Synopsis¶

nix registry pin [option…] url locked

Examples¶

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Pin nixpkgs to its most recent Git revision:

# nix registry pin nixpkgs

Afterwards the user registry will have an entry like this:

nix registry list | grep '^user '
user   flake:nixpkgs github:NixOS/nixpkgs/925b70cd964ceaedee26fde9b19cc4c4f081196a

and nix flake info will say:

# nix flake info nixpkgs
Resolved URL:  github:NixOS/nixpkgs/925b70cd964ceaedee26fde9b19cc4c4f081196a
Locked URL:    github:NixOS/nixpkgs/925b70cd964ceaedee26fde9b19cc4c4f081196a
…

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Pin nixpkgs in a custom registry to its most recent Git revision:

# nix registry pin --registry ./custom-flake-registry.json nixpkgs

Description¶

This command adds an entry to the user registry that maps flake reference url to the corresponding locked flake reference, that is, a flake reference that specifies an exact revision or content hash. This ensures that until this registry entry is removed, all uses of url will resolve to exactly the same flake.

Entries can be removed using nix registry remove (./nix3-registry-remove.md).

Options¶

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--registry registry
The registry to operate on.

Common evaluation options:

• --arg name expr
  Pass the value expr 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 Nix store to use for evaluations.
• --impure
  Allow access to mutable paths and repositories.
• --include / -I path
  Add path to the list of locations used to look up <...> file names.
• --override-flake original-ref resolved-ref
  Override the flake registries, redirecting original-ref to resolved-ref.