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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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Eelco Dolstra 6814b1dfa1 Generate binary tarballs for installing Nix 
For several platforms we don't currently have "native" Nix packages
(e.g. Mac OS X and FreeBSD).  This provides the next best thing: a
tarball containing the closure of Nix, plus a simple script
"nix-finish-install" that initialises the Nix database, registers the
paths in the closure as valid, and runs "nix-env -i /path/to/nix" to
initialise the user profile.

The tarball must be unpacked in the root directory.  It creates
/nix/store/... and /usr/bin/nix-finish-install.  Typical installation
is as follows:

  $ cd /
  $ tar xvf /path/to/nix-1.1pre1234_abcdef-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2
  $ nix-finish-install
  (if necessary add ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh to the shell
  login scripts)

After this, /usr/bin/nix-finish-install can be deleted, if desired.

The downside to the binary tarball is that it's pretty big (~55 MiB
for x86_64-linux).
2012-05-22 18:36:54 -04:00
corepkgs Disable building in chroot for Nix's corepkgs 2012-05-09 22:14:36 -04:00
doc Set release date 2012-05-11 17:40:58 -04:00
misc * Handle <path> syntax. 2011-08-06 18:54:29 +00:00
perl Support building with the Perl XS bindings disabled 2012-05-10 19:03:23 -04:00
scripts Generate binary tarballs for installing Nix 2012-05-22 18:36:54 -04:00
src * Add an option ‘build-use-substitutes’, which can be set to ‘false’ 2012-04-30 19:15:34 -04:00
tests Urgh, modified the wrong file... 2012-04-14 19:52:58 +02:00
.gitignore Drop the externals directory 2012-03-18 23:54:57 +01:00
AUTHORS * Put something in here. 2004-11-07 20:30:02 +00:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
build.nix Add an experimental nix-make file 2012-05-21 09:43:01 -04:00
configure.ac Support building with the Perl XS bindings disabled 2012-05-10 19:03:23 -04:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
INSTALL
Makefile.am Drop the externals directory 2012-03-18 23:54:57 +01:00
nix.conf.example * Document --cores in the manual. 2010-08-17 07:22:05 +00:00
nix.spec.in Fix the RPM 2012-03-19 14:30:59 +01:00
README * Install documentation in $(docdir) (i.e. share/doc/nix). 2008-11-19 13:19:09 +00:00
release.nix Generate binary tarballs for installing Nix 2012-05-22 18:36:54 -04:00
substitute.mk Support building with the Perl XS bindings disabled 2012-05-10 19:03:23 -04:00
version Bump version number 2012-05-12 00:07:08 -04:00

README 

Nix is a purely functional package manager.  For installation and
usage instructions, please read the manual, which can be found in
`docs/manual/manual.html', and additionally at the Nix website at
<http://nixos.org/>.


Acknowledgments

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for
use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.OpenSSL.org/).