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       schema.  This cannot be undone easily, so in that case you will not be

     

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       able to go back to your original channel.</para></warning>

     

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       <section><title>Automatic Upgrades</title>

     

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       <para>You can keep a NixOS system up-to-date automatically by adding

     

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       the following to <filename>configuration.nix</filename>:

     

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       <programlisting>

     

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       system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;

     

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       This enables a periodically executed systemd service named

     

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       <literal>nixos-upgrade.service</literal>. It runs

     

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       <command>nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade</command> to upgrade NixOS to

     

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       the latest version in the current channel. (To see when the service

     

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       runs, see <command>systemctl list-timers</command>.)  You can also

     

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       specify a channel explicitly, e.g.

     

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       <programlisting>

     

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       system.autoUpgrade.channel = https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-15.09;

     

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       </programlisting>

     

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       </para>

     

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       </section>

     

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       </chapter>