5a8147479e
To achieve reproducible results, `cpio` archive members are added in sorted order and inodes renumbered. The `cpio-clean.pl` script is made obsolete by setting mtimes via `touch` & using `cpio --reproducible`. Suggested by @dezgeg in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21273#issuecomment-268116605. Note that using `--reproducible` means that initial ramdisk creation now requires at least `cpio` version 2.12 (released in 2015).
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-16.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-16.09
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 (deprecated, see milestone "Move the Wiki!")
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 16.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 16.09 release
Communication: