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The key distinction I'm drawing is that there's a component that deals with the store of the machine being built, and another component for the store building it. The inner part of it assumes nothing from the builder (doesn't need chroot or root powers) so it can run comfortably inside a Nix build, as well as nixos-rebuild. I have some upcoming work that will use that to significantly speed up and streamline image builds for NixOS, especially on virtualized hosts like EC2, but it's also a reasonable speedup on native hosts. |
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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-17.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-17.03
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
NixOS linux distribution source code is located inside
nixos/ folder.
- NixOS installation instructions
- Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)
- Manual (How to write packages for Nix)
- Manual (NixOS)
- Nix Wiki (deprecated, see milestone "Move the Wiki!")
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 17.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 17.03 release
Communication: