Eelco Dolstra
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Previously, for tarball flakes, we recorded the original URL of the tarball flake, rather than the URL to which it ultimately redirects. Thus, a flake URL like http://example.org/patchelf-latest.tar that redirects to http://example.org/patchelf-<revision>.tar was not really usable. We couldn't record the redirected URL, because sites like GitHub redirect to CDN URLs that we can't rely on to be stable. So now we use the redirected URL only if the server returns the `x-nix-is-immutable` or `x-amz-meta-nix-is-immutable` headers in its response.
Nix
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.
Additional Resources
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.