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54baa53df1e2e43f686a54b2ac1b8408d0b26742 added support for the special attribute "haskellPackageOverrides" to the Nixpkgs config file to which users could add their Haskell-specific package overrides. That mechanism has since then been replaced by the more general "packageOverrides", which has subsequently been replaced by Nixpkgs overlays, which have recently been extended for Haskell-specific needs by the "haskell.packageOverrides" attribute. "haskellPackageOverrides" was never documented anywhere, so it seems unlikely that its removal is going to affect anyone.
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-18.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-18.09
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)
- Community maintained wiki
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 18.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 18.09 release
Communication:
Note: MIT license does not apply to the packages built by Nixpkgs, merely to the package descriptions (Nix expressions, build scripts, and so on). It also might not apply to patches included in Nixpkgs, which may be derivative works of the packages to which they apply. The aforementioned artifacts are all covered by the licenses of the respective packages.