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Updates gitlab to the current stable version and fixes a lot of features that were broken, at least with the current version and our configuration. Quite a lot of sweat and tears has gone into testing nearly all features and reading/patching the Gitlab source as we're about to deploy gitlab for our whole company. Things to note: * The gitlab config is now written as a nix attribute set and will be converted to JSON. Gitlab uses YAML but JSON is a subset of YAML. The `extraConfig` opition is also an attribute set that will be merged with the default config. This way *all* Gitlab options are supported. * Some paths like uploads and configs are hardcoded in rails (at least after my study of the Gitlab source). This is why they are linked from the Gitlab root to /run/gitlab and then linked to the configurable `statePath`. * Backup & restore should work out of the box from another Gitlab instance. * gitlab-git-http-server has been replaced by gitlab-workhorse upstream. Push & pull over HTTPS works perfectly. Communication to gitlab is done over unix sockets. An HTTP server is required to proxy requests to gitlab-workhorse over another unix socket at `/run/gitlab/gitlab-workhorse.socket`. * The user & group running gitlab are now configurable. These can even be changed for live instances. * The initial email address & password of the root user can be configured. Fixes #8598.
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
Communication: