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This will make the list much easier to re-use, eg. for `nixosTests` The drawback is that this approaches makes the ``` nix-build release.nix -A tests.opensmtpd.x86_64-linux ``` command about twice as slow (3s to 6s): it now has to evaluate `nixpkgs` once for each architecture, instead of just having the hardcoded list of tests that allowed to say “ok just evaluate for x86_64-linux”. On the other hand, complete evaluation of `release.nix` should be much faster because we no longer import `nixpkgs` for each test: testing with the following command went from 30s to 18s, and that's just for a few tests. ``` time nix-instantiate --eval --strict nixos/release.nix -A tests.nat ``` I initially wanted to test on the whole `release.nix`, but there are too many broken tests and it takes too long to eval them all, especially compared to the fact that the current implementation breaks some setup. Given developers can just `nix-build nixos/tests/my-test.nix`, it sounds like an overall win. |
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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 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.