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While BOINC itself is open source, many of the project applications it runs are not. Additionally, these project applications are checksummed before they are run, so they can't be patched. This means we can't make the project applications find required binaries/libraries on a NixOS system. The solution is therefore to make said binaries and libraries appear in the expected locations, by wrapping BOINC in an FHS-compatible environment [1]. An `extraEnvPackages` is also added to allow more packages to be added into this environment. The documentation for this option describes some practical use cases for it. [1] https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-fhs-environments Version 2: fixed Docbook list formatting, minor rewording Version 3: rebase onto master (9c048f4fb66adc33c6b379f2edefcb615fd53de6) Version 4: fix usage of targetPkgs argument to buildFHSUserEnv
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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