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This exploits the hermetic nature of flake evaluation to speed up repeated evaluations of a flake output attribute. For example (doing 'nix build' on an already present package): $ time nix build nixpkgs:firefox real 0m1.497s user 0m1.160s sys 0m0.139s $ time nix build nixpkgs:firefox real 0m0.052s user 0m0.038s sys 0m0.007s The cache is ~/.cache/nix/eval-cache-v1.sqlite, which has entries like INSERT INTO Attributes VALUES( X'92a907d4efe933af2a46959b082cdff176aa5bfeb47a98fabd234809a67ab195', 'packages.firefox', 1, '/nix/store/pbalzf8x19hckr8cwdv62rd6g0lqgc38-firefox-67.0.drv /nix/store/g6q0gx0v6xvdnizp8lrcw7c4gdkzana0-firefox-67.0 out'); where the hash 92a9... is a fingerprint over the flake store path and the contents of the lockfile. Because flakes are evaluated in pure mode, this uniquely identifies the evaluation result. |
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doc | ||
maintainers | ||
misc | ||
mk | ||
perl | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
tests | ||
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.version | ||
bootstrap.sh | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
flake.lock | ||
flake.nix | ||
local.mk | ||
Makefile | ||
Makefile.config.in | ||
nix.spec.in | ||
README.md | ||
release-common.nix | ||
release.nix | ||
shell.nix |
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its 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.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.