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Eelco Dolstra d166c854b6 Add option system.stateVersion
This option requests compatibility with older NixOS releases with
respect to stateful data, in cases where new releases have defaults
that might be incompatible with system state of existing NixOS
deployments. For instance, if we change the default version of
PostgreSQL, existing deployments will break if the new version can't
read databases created by the old version.

So for example, setting

  system.stateVersion = "15.07";

requests that options like services.postgresql.package use defaults
corresponding to the 15.07 release branch. Note that
nixos-generate-config emits this option. (In the future, NixOps may
set system.stateVersion to the NixOS release in use when the machine
was created.)

See also #7939 for another motivating example.
2015-07-27 20:30:09 +02:00
doc Merge pull request #8703 from Profpatsch/python-docs 2015-07-20 10:47:16 +01:00
lib intersperse: Fix quadratic performance 2015-07-24 15:58:34 +02:00
maintainers Merge pull request #8436 from dezgeg/pr-travis-oom 2015-06-21 09:26:25 +02:00
nixos Add option system.stateVersion 2015-07-27 20:30:09 +02:00
pkgs iproute: Actually don't install docs 2015-07-27 09:24:49 -07:00
.gitignore gitignore: pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/*/tmp/ 2015-02-21 11:39:20 -06:00
.travis.yml .travis.yml: add "sudo: required" to opt out of containers 2015-04-07 15:45:00 +02:00
.version Bump version 2015-07-13 17:32:29 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING.md CONTRIBUTING: link to latest hydra build of nixpkgs manual 2015-07-14 10:32:26 +02:00
COPYING * Applying an MIT-style license to Nixpkgs. 2006-04-25 16:50:34 +00:00
default.nix if we abort with too old Nix, hint docs 2015-01-21 21:41:40 +01:00
README.md README.md: remove graph, it doesn't work properly 2015-06-21 18:34:33 +03:00

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Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:

% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git

For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-14.12 for the latest release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:

% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-14.12

For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.

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