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Setting nixosVersion to something custom is useful for meaningful GRUB menus and /nix/store paths, but actuallly changing it rebulids the whole system path (because of `nixos-version` script and manual pages). Also, changing it is not a particularly good idea because you can then be differentitated from other NixOS users by a lot of programs that read /etc/os-release. This patch introduces an alternative option that does all you want from nixosVersion, but rebuilds only the very top system level and /etc while using your label in the names of system /nix/store paths, GRUB and other boot loaders' menus, getty greetings and so on.
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-15.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-15.09
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)
- Nix Wiki
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 14.12 release
- Continuous package builds for 15.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 14.12 release
- Tests for 15.09 release
Communication: