[other] show how to pin flake input to a tag

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@ Template:
 
 -->
 
-# v0.2.2 (unreleased)
+# Upcoming Release
+
+## Other Changes
+
+- Show how to pin Self Host Blocks flake input to a tag.
+
+# v0.2.2
 
 ## User Facing Backwards Compatible Changes
 

README.md

@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ To use it in your project, add the following flake input:
 inputs.selfhostblocks.url = "github:ibizaman/selfhostblocks";
 ```
 
+Then, pin it to a release/tag with the following snippet.
+Updating Self Host Blocks to a new version can be done the same way.
+
+```nix
+nix flake lock --override-input selfhostblocks github:ibizaman/selfhostblocks/v0.2.2
+```
+
 To get started using Self Host Blocks,
 follow [the usage section](https://shb.skarabox.com/usage.html) of the manual.
 It goes over how to deploy with [Colmena][], [nixos-rebuild][]

docs/redirects.json

@@ -1619,6 +1619,18 @@
   "usage-flake": [
     "usage.html#usage-flake"
   ],
+  "usage-flake-autoupdate": [
+    "usage.html#usage-flake-autoupdate"
+  ],
+  "usage-flake-nixpkgs": [
+    "usage.html#usage-flake-nixpkgs"
+  ],
+  "usage-flake-substituter": [
+    "usage.html#usage-flake-substituter"
+  ],
+  "usage-flake-tag": [
+    "usage.html#usage-flake-tag"
+  ],
   "usage-secrets": [
     "usage.html#usage-secrets"
   ]

docs/usage.md

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ imports = [
 ];
 ```
 
+### Substituter {#usage-flake-substituter}
+
 You can also use the public cache as a substituter with:
 
 ```nix
@@ -28,6 +30,8 @@ nix.settings.substituters = [
 ];
 ```
 
+### Follow Nixpkgs {#usage-flake-nixpkgs}
+
 Self Host Blocks provides its own `nixpkgs` input so both can be updated in lock step, ensuring
 maximum compatibility. It is recommended to use the following `nixpkgs` as input for your
 deployments. Also, patches can be applied by Self Host Blocks. To handle all this, you need the
@@ -52,6 +56,18 @@ in
 Advanced users can if they wish use a version of `nixpkgs` of their choosing but then we cannot
 guarantee Self Host Block won't use a non-existing option from `nixpkgs`.
 
+### Tag Updates {#usage-flake-tag}
+
+To pin Self Host Blocks to a release/tag, run the following snippet:
+
+```nix
+nix flake lock --override-input selfhostblocks github:ibizaman/selfhostblocks/v0.2.2
+```
+
+Updating Self Host Blocks to a new version can be done the same way.
+
+### Auto Updates {#usage-flake-autoupdate}
+
 To avoid manually updating the `nixpkgs` version, the [GitHub repository][1] for Self Host Blocks
 tries to update the `nixpkgs` input daily, verifying all tests pass before accepting this new
 `nixpkgs` version. The setup is explained in [this blog post][2].