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    [–] oculi@anarchist.nexus 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    On NixOS i do it monthly. My internet is bad and sometimes it takes me half a day to update, i don't have time to do weekly

    [–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    You can just do it in parts though?

    If you have a flake.lock you can update it, start rebuilding (nixos-rebuild boot) and if it's not done before shutdown you can just run that same command after the next boot and it will continue where it left of (minus a few packages it has to rebuild again).

    My pc always updates to the latest lock whenever it is running, when I update my Nixos repository my pc will eventually follow without doing anything. The only thing to watch out for is changed configurations or build errors but for that you just have to check the logs every once in a while or set up some way to be notified of the failing rebuild command.

    [–] tux7350@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

    Holy shit I had no idea about this. Thank you so much!

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