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From now on, only the testing branch of grsecurity will be supported. Additionally, use only patches from upstream. It's impossible to provide meaningful support for grsecurity stable. First, because building and testing \(m \times n \times z) [1], packages is infeasible. Second, because stable patches are only available from upstream for-pay, making us reliant on third-parties for patches. In addition to creating yet more work for the maintainers, using stable patches provided by a third-party goes against the wishes of upstream. nixpkgs provides the tools necessary to build grsecurity kernels for any version the user chooses, however, provided they pay for, or otherwise acquire, the patch themselves. Eventually, we'll want to remove the now obsolete top-level attributes, but leave them in for now to smoothe migration (they have been removed from top-level/release.nix, though, because it makes no sense to have them there). [1]: where \(m\) is the number of grsecurity flavors, \(n\) is the number of kernel versions, and z is the size of the `linuxPackages` set
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-16.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-16.03
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
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 16.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 16.03 release
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