
The manuals are now evaluated with each derivation in `pkgs` (recursively) replaced by a fake with path "\${pkgs.path.to.the.attribute}". It isn't perfect, but it seems to cover a vast majority of use cases. Caveat: even if the package is reached by a different means, the path above will be shown and not e.g. `${config.services.foo.package}`. As before, defaults created by `mkDefault` aren't displayed, but documentation shouldn't (mostly) be a reason to use that anymore. Note: t wouldn't be enough to just use `lib.mapAttrsRecursive`, because derivations are also (special) attribute sets.
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-15.09
for the latest
release and nixos-unstable
for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-15.09
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
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 15.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 15.09 release
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