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This is primarily to subsume the functionality of the copy-from-other-stores substituter. For example, in the NixOS installer, we can now do (assuming we're in the target chroot, and the Nix store of the installation CD is bind-mounted on /tmp/nix): $ nix-build ... --option substituters 'local?state=/tmp/nix/var&real=/tmp/nix/store' However, unlike copy-from-other-stores, this also allows write access to such a store. One application might be fetching substitutes for /nix/store in a situation where the user doesn't have sufficient privileges to create /nix, e.g.: $ NIX_REMOTE="local?state=/home/alice/nix/var&real=/home/alice/nix/store" nix-build ... |
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corepkgs | ||
doc/manual | ||
misc | ||
mk | ||
perl | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
tests | ||
.dir-locals.el | ||
.gitignore | ||
bootstrap.sh | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
dev-shell | ||
INSTALL | ||
local.mk | ||
Makefile | ||
Makefile.config.in | ||
nix.spec.in | ||
README.md | ||
release.nix | ||
version |
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of it's purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).