cannot search in different nix channels

Question

cannot search in different nix channels

Closed this issue 7 months ago · 4 comments

hi, i've been using nix-search-cli for quite some time now and it's awesome for searching packages from the command line, but i wanted to try searching packages from the command line with sources from other channels but i didn't get anything

first i added new channel with this command

nix-channel --add https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-22.11-small nixos-22.11-small

and i update channel with this command

nix-channel --update

then i search package in this channel like this but i didn't get anything

Answer 1 · 2024-09-19T20:03:41.000Z

Hi, glad to hear you're using and enjoying nix-search! This CLI program doesn't interact with your local channels at all; it only searches the Elasticsearch index that powers https://search.nixos.org/packages. The only valid values for --channel are unstable and whatever pinned version they have on the site, currently 24.05:

Sorry for the confusion!

Answer 2 · 2024-09-23T19:28:57.000Z

I updated the cli help command to hopefully make this less confusing for the future:

# ... on a specific channel, default "unstable". The valid channel
#     values are what the search.nixos.org index has, check
#     that website to see what options they show in their interface.
nix-search --channel=unstable python3

Answer 3 · 2024-09-27T15:18:14.000Z

I updated the cli help command to hopefully make this less confusing for the future:

# ... on a specific channel, default "unstable". The valid channel
#     values are what the search.nixos.org index has, check
#     that website to see what options they show in their interface.
nix-search --channel=unstable python3

haha thanks, i have realize it since a few days ago. sorry for my confusion.

Answer 4 · 2024-09-27T15:24:56.000Z

No problem at all, thanks for writing in. If you have any other questions or suggestions, please let me know.