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Upstream likes to move "old" releases to an archive mirror as soon as a new one is released. This is now handled for free by mirrors.nix. (No idea why cs.utah.edu was used to begin with; it's now added to mirrors.nix. Note that it doesn't support SSL, but that applies to several others so I don't see the harm.)
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-14.12 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-14.12
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)
- 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
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