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Eelco Dolstra 950b46821f Remove TreeInfo
The attributes previously stored in TreeInfo (narHash, revCount,
lastModified) are now stored in Input. This makes it less arbitrary
what attributes are stored where.

As a result, the lock file format has changed. An entry like

    "info": {
      "lastModified": 1585405475,
      "narHash": "sha256-bESW0n4KgPmZ0luxvwJ+UyATrC6iIltVCsGdLiphVeE="
    },
    "locked": {
      "owner": "NixOS",
      "repo": "nixpkgs",
      "rev": "b88ff468e9850410070d4e0ccd68c7011f15b2be",
      "type": "github"
    },

is now stored as

    "locked": {
      "owner": "NixOS",
      "repo": "nixpkgs",
      "rev": "b88ff468e9850410070d4e0ccd68c7011f15b2be",
      "type": "github",
      "lastModified": 1585405475,
      "narHash": "sha256-bESW0n4KgPmZ0luxvwJ+UyATrC6iIltVCsGdLiphVeE="
    },

The 'Input' class is now a dumb set of attributes. All the fetcher
implementations subclass InputScheme, not Input. This simplifies the
API.

Also, fix substitution of flake inputs. This was broken since lazy
flake fetching started using fetchTree internally.
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contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
corepkgs Move call-flake.nix into libexpr 2020-03-11 17:04:51 +01:00
doc/manual Manpages: Do not refer to nixpkgs-channels 2020-05-23 15:26:59 +02:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers Update release script 2020-04-10 17:27:35 +02:00
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mk Don't install unit tests 2020-05-08 12:03:27 +02:00
nix-rust make check: Run unit tests 2020-05-08 11:49:40 +02:00
perl nix-perl: Fix segfault in queryPathInfo) 2020-03-10 11:00:17 +01:00
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COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
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Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to Install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

Building Nix

You can build Nix using one of the targets provided by release.nix:

$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.aarch64-linux
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.x86_64-darwin
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.i686-linux
$ nix-build ./release.nix -A build.x86_64-linux

Development Environment

You can use the provided shell.nix to get a working development environment:

$ nix-shell
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ ./configure
$ make

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.