Currently, when building NixOS from a git clone, Nix has to copy the entire repo at >1GB into the store by default. That is not necessary and causes a dumping large path message. If you need the old behaviour for some reason, you will have to specify it by passing the path to your repo explicitly as the nixpkgs argument like this: --arg nixpkgs '{outPath = ./.; revCount = 56789; shortRev = "gfedcba"; }' |
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README.md |
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-17.09
for the latest
release and nixos-unstable
for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-17.09
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)
- Community maintained wiki
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 17.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 17.09 release
Communication: