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Eelco Dolstra 1a68710d4d
Add an option for specifying remote builders
This is useful for one-off situations where you want to specify a
builder on the command line instead of having to mess with
nix.machines. E.g.

  $ nix-build -A hello --argstr system x86_64-darwin \
    --option builders 'root@macstadium1 x86_64-darwin'

will perform the specified build on "macstadium1".

It also removes the need for a separate nix.machines file since you
can specify builders in nix.conf directly. (In fact nix.machines is
yet another hack that predates the general nix.conf configuration
file, IIRC.)

Note: this option is supported by the daemon for trusted users. The
fact that this allows trusted users to specify paths to SSH keys to
which they don't normally have access is maybe a bit too much trust...
2017-05-02 15:42:43 +02:00
config Add config.guess, config.sub and install-sh 2013-11-25 11:26:02 +00:00
corepkgs Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-03-31 14:13:32 +02:00
doc/manual Remove $NIX_BUILD_HOOK and $NIX_CURRENT_LOAD 2017-05-01 17:30:16 +02:00
maintainers Update upload-release script 2017-01-03 11:42:56 +01:00
misc nix-daemon.service: set XDG_CONFIG_HOME 2017-04-29 11:33:55 +02:00
mk set _GNU_SOURCE on cygwin 2017-04-21 11:27:27 -03:00
perl Simplify building nix-perl in nix-shell 2017-04-26 17:04:45 +02:00
scripts Merge branch 'nix-copy-closure-c++' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-02-07 20:47:45 +01:00
src Add an option for specifying remote builders 2017-05-02 15:42:43 +02:00
tests Fix build hook test 2017-05-02 12:07:56 +02:00
.dir-locals.el Add .dir-locals.el for Emacs 2016-01-28 11:12:04 +01:00
.gitignore Add nix-perl package for the perl bindings 2017-02-07 15:56:32 -05:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Check for libreadline 2017-04-28 16:53:56 +02:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
local.mk Shut up some warnings 2017-04-14 14:42:20 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'remove-perl' of https://github.com/shlevy/nix 2017-03-31 14:13:32 +02:00
Makefile.config.in Check for libreadline 2017-04-28 16:53:56 +02:00
nix.spec.in Check for libreadline 2017-04-28 16:53:56 +02:00
README.md Fix minor grammatical nitpick ("it's" vs. "its") in README.md. 2017-03-22 10:11:23 -04:00
release.nix Check for libreadline 2017-04-28 16:53:56 +02:00
shell.nix Check for libreadline 2017-04-28 16:53:56 +02:00
version Bump 2016-01-20 16:34:37 +01:00

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.