A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
https://lix.systems
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E.g. $ time nix cat-store --store https://cache.nixos.org?local-nar-cache=/tmp/nars \ /nix/store/b0w2hafndl09h64fhb86kw6bmhbmnpm1-blender-2.79/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/blender.svg > /dev/null real 0m4.139s $ time nix cat-store --store https://cache.nixos.org?local-nar-cache=/tmp/nars \ /nix/store/b0w2hafndl09h64fhb86kw6bmhbmnpm1-blender-2.79/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/blender.svg > /dev/null real 0m0.024s (Before, the second call took ~0.220s.) This will use a NAR listing in /tmp/nars/b0w2hafndl09h64fhb86kw6bmhbmnpm1.ls containing all metadata, including the offsets of regular files inside the NAR. Thus, we don't need to read the entire NAR. (We do read the entire listing, but that's generally pretty small. We could use a SQLite DB by borrowing some more code from nixos-channel-scripts/file-cache.hh.) This is primarily useful when Hydra is serving files from an S3 binary cache, in particular when you have giant NARs. E.g. we had some 12 GiB NARs, so accessing individuals files was pretty slow. |
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config | ||
corepkgs | ||
doc/manual | ||
maintainers | ||
misc | ||
mk | ||
perl | ||
scripts | ||
src | ||
tests | ||
.dir-locals.el | ||
.editorconfig | ||
.gitignore | ||
.travis.yml | ||
bootstrap.sh | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
local.mk | ||
Makefile | ||
Makefile.config.in | ||
nix.spec.in | ||
README.md | ||
release-common.nix | ||
release.nix | ||
shell.nix | ||
version |
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.