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This commit includes a substantial refactoring of `nix-generate-from-cpan`. This somewhat simplifies the code through the use of the CPAN::Meta module while adding the following features: - The program now takes an optional maintainer on the command line that is subsequently added into the generated package. - An attempt is made to convert the license specified inside the META.json or META.yaml file to a license in `stdenv.lib.licenses`. - An attempt is made to disambiguate attribute names of packages whose name is a reserved word in Nix. - Write logging output using Log::Log4perl. - Print module RSS feed URL. The RSS feed, hosted by MetaCPAN, can be used to track updates to the module.
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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