Marcelo Lazaroni • 8/31/2020

Searching and installing old versions of Nix packages

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This technical article addresses the problem of searching for and installing older versions of packages in the Nix ecosystem. It details the author's process of discovering no native Nix solution, then methodically using Git history on the nixpkgs repository to find version changes, which led to the creation of the 'Nix Package Versions' tool to provide this functionality.

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