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John Ericson b7edc2099f Improve derivation parsing
- Don't assert: Derivation ATerms are not necessarily produced by Nix,
  and parsers should always throw graceful errors

- Improve error message from `static void except(..)`, shows both what
  we expected and what we actually got.

The intention is that we backport it, and then hopefully a few people
might get slightly better errors if they try out new experimental drv
files (for RFC 92) with an old version of Nix.
2023-09-06 11:44:06 -04:00
.github Merge pull request #8925 from NixOS/dependabot/github_actions/cachix/install-nix-action-23 2023-09-05 20:37:26 +02:00
config Run autoupdate 2021-06-01 11:42:38 +02:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc Merge pull request #8933 from fricklerhandwerk/option-anchors 2023-09-06 09:39:33 -04:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers maintainers: add note on marking PRs as draft 2023-06-19 10:55:34 +02:00
misc Choose a reasonable number similar to LimitNOFile 2023-07-07 07:52:16 -07:00
mk Introduce notion of a test group, use for CA tests 2023-07-18 09:31:13 -04:00
perl Simplify ContentAddress 2023-07-07 07:30:01 -04:00
scripts Merge pull request #8512 from scarf005/install-show-uid 2023-06-15 13:49:44 +02:00
src Improve derivation parsing 2023-09-06 11:44:06 -04:00
tests Merge branch 'master' into valid_deriver_2 2023-09-01 13:35:05 +02:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Merge pull request #8653 from hercules-ci/gitignore-.cache 2023-08-18 15:02:21 +02:00
.version Bump version 2023-07-24 21:30:33 +02:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Always disable GC in a coroutine unless the patch is applied 2023-04-07 14:54:38 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac expand on the system type in hacking guide 2023-07-19 10:37:40 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING.md add checklist to contribution guide 2023-09-05 14:08:40 +02:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix GC root for fetched nixpkgs/lib content 2023-08-16 15:46:37 +02:00
docker.nix fix "add an option to include flake-registry..." 2023-05-16 14:35:31 +02:00
flake.lock add flake-compat to flake.nix and use sha256 in default.nix 2023-03-06 21:11:24 +01:00
flake.nix update system definitions 2023-08-23 19:28:24 +01:00
local.mk Enable -Werror=switch-enum 2023-04-03 18:45:20 +02:00
Makefile Introduce notion of a test group, use for CA tests 2023-07-18 09:31:13 -04:00
Makefile.config.in Generate API docs with Doxygen 2023-03-10 12:51:06 -05:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md Improve hacking.md 2023-02-13 12:00:00 +04:00
shell.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00

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 to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

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License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.