A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
93cc06334 removed nss-cacert from the binary tarball, but they're
necessary for global compatibility (and for our installer). This is what
results in cacerts being in the default profile, so e.g. the daemon has
TLS certs without having to use the system ones.
There's a fallback behavior in the daemon script in case these wind up
missing from the profile, but we don't want to have to rely on that,
since the fallback fails if it doesn't recognize one of a handful of
distros.
Change-Id: I60d8e6f734469548e80d5f38113ef168f67cbf7d
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
to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.