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John Ericson a4e5de1b9d Derivations can output "text-hashed" data
In particular, this means that derivations can output derivations. But
that ramification isn't (yet!) useful as we would want, since there is
no way to have a dependent derivation that is itself a dependent
derivation.
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.github Update .github/workflows/test.yml 2020-09-28 21:08:24 +03:00
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contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
corepkgs Remove corepkgs/config.nix 2020-09-17 10:42:51 +02:00
doc/manual Remove stray 'Title:' from the manual 2020-10-08 17:30:40 +02:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers set Content-Type to "text/plain" for install script 2020-08-20 13:21:22 +02:00
misc Add a zsh completion script 2020-10-09 09:47:47 +02:00
mk mk/precompiled-headers.mk: Remove special handling for clang 2020-10-06 13:27:09 +02:00
nix-rust rust: small patches 2020-10-08 13:40:47 +02:00
perl Use PathReferences more widely 2020-10-07 15:00:10 +00:00
scripts Installer: Set a known umask 2020-09-30 17:48:49 +02:00
src Derivations can output "text-hashed" data 2020-10-13 02:15:48 +00:00
tests Derivations can output "text-hashed" data 2020-10-13 02:15:48 +00:00
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.version Bump version to 3.0 2020-07-28 13:18:27 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Use mdbook 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
flake.lock Update lowdown version 2020-09-21 13:11:31 +02:00
flake.nix Use gold as the linker on Linux 2020-09-23 16:10:31 +02:00
local.mk mk/precompiled-headers.mk: Remove special handling for clang 2020-10-06 13:27:09 +02:00
Makefile Disable FORTIFY_SOURCE when compiling without optims 2020-09-22 10:04:25 +02:00
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precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md Fix a typo (#4073) 2020-09-26 11:33:04 +00:00
shell.nix Add back flake-compat shell.nix 2020-07-17 14:58:59 +00:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.