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Eelco Dolstra 249988a787 * Allow the output/expression id to be forced to a certain
value; this potentially dangerous feature enables better 
  sharing for those paths for which the content is known in 
  advance (e.g., because a content hash is given).
* Fast builds: if we can expand all output paths of a derive 
  expression, we don't have to build.
2003-07-21 20:07:12 +00:00
boost * Added the Boost format library which provides a safe printf 2003-06-27 13:41:42 +00:00
corepkgs * Allow the output/expression id to be forced to a certain 2003-07-21 20:07:12 +00:00
scripts * Argh, another short-write problem. Added wrappers around 2003-07-20 21:11:43 +00:00
src * Allow the output/expression id to be forced to a certain 2003-07-21 20:07:12 +00:00
AUTHORS * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
ChangeLog * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
configure.ac * Generate nar.sh, fetchurl.sh. 2003-07-18 07:42:57 +00:00
COPYING * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
INSTALL * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
Makefile.am * Get `nix-push' working again. It now uses Nix/Fix to create Nix 2003-07-10 13:41:28 +00:00
NEWS * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
README * Added some installation instructions to the readme. 2003-04-08 12:13:57 +00:00
substitute.mk * Refactorings. 2003-07-20 19:29:38 +00:00

Overview
========

Nix is a package manager, deployment system, and component glue
mechanism.


Prerequisites
=============

* Berkeley DB 4.0.14
* CWI ATerm 2.0


Installation
============

* When building from the Subversion repository, first do:

    autoreconf -i

* To build, do:

    ./configure
    make
    make install

  Note that this will install to /nix, which is the default prefix.
  You can specify another prefix, but this is not recommended if you
  want to use prebuilt packages from other sources.


Usage
=====

TODO