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When not cross compiling, nativeBuildInputs and buildInputs have identical behaviour. Currently that is implemented by having mkDerivation do a concatenation of those variables in Nix code and pass that to the builder via the nativeBuildInputs attribute. However, that has some annoying side effects, like `foo.buildInputs` evaluating to `[ ]` even if buildInputs were specified in the nix expression for foo. Instead, pass buildInputs and nativeBuildInputs in separate variables as usual, and move the logic of cross compilation vs. native compilation to the stdenv builder script. This is probably a tiny bit uglier but fixes the previous problem. Issue #4855.
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-16.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-16.09
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 (deprecated, see milestone "Move the Wiki!")
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 16.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 16.09 release
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