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Intuitively, one cares mainly about the host platform: Platforms differ in meaningful ways but compilation is morally a pure process and probably doesn't care, or those difference are already abstracted away. @Dezgeg also empirically confirmed that > 95% of checks are indeed of the host platform. Yet these attributes in the old cross infrastructure were defined to be the build platform, for expediency. And this was never before changed. (For native builds build and host coincide, so it isn't clear what the intention was.) Fixing this doesn't affect native builds, since again they coincide. It also doesn't affect cross builds of anything in Nixpkgs, as these are no longer used. It could affect external cross builds, but I deem that unlikely as anyone thinking about cross would use more explicit attributes for clarity, all the more so because the rarity of inspecting the build platform. |
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Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the Hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-18.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-18.03
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
NixOS Linux distribution source code is located inside
nixos/ folder.
- NixOS installation instructions
- Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)
- Manual (How to write packages for Nix)
- Manual (NixOS)
- Community maintained wiki
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 18.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 18.03 release
Communication: