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Yesterday, I wrote about using Nix to create shells for different versions of PHP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The current stable version of Nix has PHP 8.4.8, 8.3.22, 8.2.28 and 8.1.32, but what if you need an older version?<\/p>\n

If it has been in nixpkgs previously, it can still be accessed.<\/p>\n

Nix allows you to create different channels to install different versions of the nixpkgs repository and access different sets of packages.<\/p>\n

With flakes, different versions of nixpkgs can be used as inputs to add multiple releases, such as stable and unstable<\/a>, or older releases or even a specific Git commit.<\/p>\n

For example, if I needed to use PHP 7.4 - which is not available in the current release - I could use this flake.nix file:<\/p>\n

{\n  inputs = {\n    nixpkgs-php74.url = \"github:nixos\/nixpkgs\/81b77fd3847a\";\n  };\n\n  outputs = { nixpkgs-php74, ... }:\n    let\n      system = \"x86_64-linux\";\n      pkgs = import nixpkgs-php74 { inherit system; };\n    in {\n      devShells.${system}.default = pkgs.mkShell {\n        packages = [\n          pkgs.php74\n        ];\n      };\n    };\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>
Pinning nixpkgs to that commit hash gives me access to php74<\/code>, which I can access using nix develop<\/code>.<\/p>\n
This approach works with any package in nixpkgs - not just PHP.<\/p>\n
Or, if it wasn't available in an older version of nixpkgs, I can write a custom derivation and add it myself.<\/p>\n",
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