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regnat 7e5c79a2d2 Forbid the name attribute for fetchTree
We need to support it for the “old” fetch* functions for backwards
compatibility, but we don’t need it for fetchTree (as it’s a new
function).
Given that changing the `name` messes-up the content hashing, we can
just forbid passing a custom `name` argument to it
2021-07-08 13:53:52 +02:00
.github github actions: simplify getting the system logic 2021-06-28 23:02:53 +02:00
config Run autoupdate 2021-06-01 11:42:38 +02:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc/manual Improve explanation of NIX_PATH prefix syntax 2021-06-03 17:59:39 -07:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers upload-release.pl: add aarch64-darwin 2021-07-02 14:12:00 +02:00
misc Fix zsh completion script 2021-06-12 23:50:26 -05:00
mk Merge pull request #4582 from puckipedia/cppflags 2021-03-01 13:08:14 +01:00
nix-rust Only link with libdl on Linux 2021-06-01 08:05:21 +00:00
perl Make sodium a required dependency 2021-01-06 17:56:53 +01:00
scripts Support cross-compiling binaryTarball 2021-06-26 00:12:03 -05:00
src Forbid the name attribute for fetchTree 2021-07-08 13:53:52 +02:00
tests Forbid the name attribute for fetchTree 2021-07-08 13:53:52 +02:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Add a test for nix run with CA derivations 2021-05-17 15:10:48 +02:00
.version Revert "Bump version to 3.0" 2020-10-26 11:30:18 +01:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff boehmgc: Remove unused code from patch 2021-06-25 17:45:48 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into cross-jobs 2021-06-25 15:51:02 -05:00
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default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2021-06-28 18:42:44 +02:00
flake.nix Disable -pie on static nix 2021-06-29 21:48:07 -05:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Install zsh completion script 2021-06-02 00:44:03 +08:00
Makefile.config.in Drop libbz2 / zlib / lzma dependency + style fixes 2021-04-15 13:55:22 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md throw freenode down the memory hole 2021-05-27 21:48:39 +02:00
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.