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Dominique Martinet 1fd13d67e8 archive: disable preallocate-contents by default
using fallocate() to preallocate files space does more harm than good:
 - breaks compression on btrfs
 - has been called "not the right thing to do" by xfs developers
(because delayed allocation that most filesystems implement leads to smarter
allocation than what the filesystem needs to do if we upfront fallocate files)
2020-11-26 14:26:57 +01:00
.github Bump cachix/install-nix-action from v11 to v12 (#4237) 2020-11-09 23:21:55 +00:00
config
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
corepkgs fix typo in comment in fetchurl.nix 2020-11-18 11:20:50 +07:00
doc/manual Fix macOS sandbox build 2020-11-23 17:40:17 +01:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers set Content-Type to "text/plain" for install script 2020-08-20 13:21:22 +02:00
misc Add some missing clean-files 2020-10-18 20:32:59 +02:00
mk Make a better -lz hack 2020-10-15 20:13:01 +00:00
nix-rust rust: small patches 2020-10-08 13:40:47 +02:00
perl Return signatures in Perl path info 2020-11-21 22:06:15 +00:00
scripts installer: simplify the per-build installation 2020-11-21 19:56:46 +01:00
src archive: disable preallocate-contents by default 2020-11-26 14:26:57 +01:00
tests fetchMercurial: set HGPLAIN when invoking hg 2020-11-23 16:12:33 +00:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig
.gitignore Update .gitignore 2020-10-18 20:32:46 +02:00
.version Revert "Bump version to 3.0" 2020-10-26 11:30:18 +01:00
bootstrap.sh
configure.ac Make a better -lz hack 2020-10-15 20:13:01 +00:00
COPYING
default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2020-10-18 21:20:35 +02:00
flake.nix installer: simplify the per-build installation 2020-11-21 19:56:46 +01:00
local.mk mk/precompiled-headers.mk: Remove special handling for clang 2020-10-06 13:27:09 +02:00
Makefile Disable FORTIFY_SOURCE when compiling without optims 2020-09-22 10:04:25 +02:00
Makefile.config.in Remove references to xmllint 2020-07-23 18:26:48 +02:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md Fix a typo (#4073) 2020-09-26 11:33:04 +00:00
shell.nix Add back flake-compat shell.nix 2020-07-17 14:58:59 +00:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.