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chromium: Refactor updater entirely in Nix 
The update.sh shell script now is only a call to nix-build, which does
all the hard work of updating the Chromium source channels and the
plugins. It results in a store path with the new sources.nix that
replaces the already existing sources.nix.

Along the way, this has led to a quite massive workaround, which abuses
MD5 collisions to detect whether an URL is existing, because something
like builtins.tryEval (builtins.fetchurl url) unfortunately doesn't
work. Further explanations and implementation details are documented in
the actual implementation.

The drawback of this is that we don't have nice status messages anymore,
but on the upside we have a more robust generation of the sources.nix
file, which now also should work properly on missing upstream
sources/binaries.

This also makes it much easier to implement fetching non-GNU/Linux
versions of Chromium and we have all values from omahaproxy available as
an attribute set (see the csv2nix and channels attributes in the update
attribute).

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
2016-02-26 20:55:17 +01:00
.github ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md: Tweak 2016-02-23 17:06:55 +01:00
doc nixpkgs manual: Fix license strings docs 2016-02-24 01:48:02 +01:00
lib Merge pull request #13430 from nico202/yarp 2016-02-26 09:29:21 +01:00
maintainers Merge pull request #10768 from rycee/refactor/nix-generate-from-cpan 2016-02-26 00:40:15 +00:00
nixos Merge pull request #13434 from spacefrogg/oath-module 2016-02-26 18:06:28 +00:00
pkgs chromium: Refactor updater entirely in Nix 2016-02-26 20:55:17 +01:00
.gitignore gitignore: pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/*/tmp/ 2015-02-21 11:39:20 -06:00
.mention-bot .mention-bot: remove illegal comment (close #11488) 2015-12-15 14:46:39 +01:00
.travis.yml travis-ci: use trusty (has 7.5G ram compared to previous 3) 2015-11-02 13:04:03 +01:00
.version .version: remove trailing newline 2015-08-27 00:30:42 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: Update year range to 2016 (close #12621) 2016-01-26 10:10:45 +01:00
default.nix Expose minimum required Nix version. 2015-11-26 23:11:11 +08:00
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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.

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