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Dave Nicponski ca2be509b9 Verify $HOME is owned by current user in getHome(), if it exists.
Useful because a default `sudo` on darwin doesn't clear `$HOME`, so things like `sudo nix-channel --list`
will surprisingly return the USER'S channels, rather than `root`'s.

Other counterintuitive outcomes can be seen in this PR description:
  https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6622
2022-06-17 17:42:08 -04:00
.github Correctly get the nix version in the docker job 2022-06-10 12:09:09 +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/manual Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-06-01 17:55:03 +02:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers Integrate push-docker.sh into the release script 2022-02-18 13:58:01 +01:00
misc nix-daemon.service: sync LimitNOFILE with the nixos service 2022-05-19 21:16:07 +03:00
mk enable LTO in optimized builds 2022-03-03 17:47:49 +01:00
perl Remove std::string alias (for real this time) 2022-02-25 16:13:02 +01:00
scripts install-multi-user: check if selinux is enabled and if it is then abort 2022-06-10 05:12:03 +03:00
src Verify $HOME is owned by current user in getHome(), if it exists. 2022-06-17 17:42:08 -04:00
tests Merge pull request #6027 from Ma27/pure-repl 2022-06-13 16:11:46 +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 Add unit tests for libexpr (#5377) 2022-05-06 18:05:27 +02:00
.version Bump version 2022-05-30 21:11:20 +02:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Fix leaking pthread_attr_t 2021-11-03 22:54:16 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
COPYING
default.nix Remove url literals 2022-01-24 13:28:21 +01:00
docker.nix Update docker.nix 2022-06-10 09:17:28 +01:00
flake.lock flake: update to 22.05 2022-05-31 11:51:17 -07:00
flake.nix Merge pull request #6630 from edolstra/boost-dylib 2022-06-08 17:55:21 +02:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Merge branch 'master' into lto 2022-05-25 11:55:13 +00:00
Makefile.config.in enable LTO in optimized builds 2022-03-03 17:47:49 +01:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md throw freenode down the memory hole 2021-05-27 21:48:39 +02:00
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 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.