diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
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index 00000000000..eb4668233e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
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+*~
+,*
+.*.swp
+.*.swo
+result
+result-*
+/doc/NEWS.html
+/doc/NEWS.txt
+/doc/manual.html
+/doc/manual.pdf
+.version-suffix
+
+.DS_Store
+.git
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+++ b/Dockerfile
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+FROM busybox
+
+RUN dir=`mktemp -d` && trap 'rm -rf "$dir"' EXIT && \
+    wget -O- http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.7/nix-1.7-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2  | bzcat | tar x -C $dir && \
+    mkdir -m 0755 /nix && USER=root sh $dir/*/install && \
+    echo ". /root/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh" >> /etc/profile
+
+ADD . /root/nix/nixpkgs
+ONBUILD ENV NIX_PATH nixpkgs=/root/nix/nixpkgs:nixos=/root/nix/nixpkgs/nixos
+ONBUILD ENV PATH /root/.nix-profile/bin:/root/.nix-profile/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
+ONBUILD ENV ENV /etc/profile
+ENV ENV /etc/profile