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I have renamed the overlay to “otherPackageSets” because I think that is more descriptive. pkgsLocal has been removed because there were concerns that it would be confusing. None of the other names seemed very useful so I think it is best to avoid it altogether. pkgsCross is still included, hopefully, that will not have as much confusion. pkgsMusl is now available for building Musl packages. It will give you packages bulit with the Musl libc. Also added more documentation. /cc @dezgeg @Ericson2314 @dtzWill
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-18.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-18.03
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)
- Community maintained wiki
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 18.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 18.03 release
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