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Nix 2.0 no longer uses these directories. /run/nix/current-load was moved to /nix/var/nix/current-load in 2017 (Nix commit d7653dfc6dea076ecbe00520c6137977e0fced35). Anyway, src/build-remote/build-remote.cc will create the current-load directory if it doesn't exist already. /run/nix/remote-stores seems to have been deprecated since 2014 (Nix commit b1af336132cfe8a6e4c54912cc512f8c28d4ebf3) when the documentation for $NIX_OTHER_STORES was removed, and support for it was dropped entirely in 2016 (Nix commit 4494000e04122f24558e1436e66d20d89028b4bd).
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 https://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-18.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-18.03
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 18.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 18.03 release
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