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Darwin machines come with a case-insensitive filesystem by default. The gflags package's source contains a file 'BUILD' and the build process attempts to create a directory called 'build', which fails on case-insensitive filesystems. Add a prePatch hook to rename the BUILD file (which is for use with an unrelated build tool) to something that doesn't conflict with the 'build' directory. This hook allows this derivation to be built on case-insensitive filesystems. Add metadata to the derivation because previously it had none.
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-17.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-17.09
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)
- Community maintained wiki
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 17.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 17.09 release
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