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Currently the logic of generating nixpkgs Hydra jobs is to walk through the pkgs evaluated for system = "x86_64-linux", collect any derivations and their meta.platforms values. However, that doesn't work for packages whose meta.platforms doesn't include x86_64-linux, as just evaluating their meta attribute raises an error so they get skipped completely. As a less-intrusive fix (i.e. anything than rewriting the current package enumeration logic), allow passing `config.allowUnsupportedSystem = true` to permit evaluating packages regardless of their platform and use that in the package listing phase. Fixes #25200
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.
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