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The goal is to allow the installation and testing of arbitrary Nix versions. Extend the base installer to accept a `--tarball-url-prefix <url>` to change where the Nix tarball is getting downloaded from. Once this is merged it should allow to: 1. Pick an evaluation at https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nix/master that looks healthy 2. Select the installedScript build and find the store path. Now equipped with all of this, use an instance of nar-serve to fetch the install script and release tarballs: curl -sfL https://nar-serve.numtide.com/nix/store/rkv4yh7pym941bhj0849zqdkg2546bdv-installer-script/install \ | sh --tarball-url-prefix https://nar-serve.numtide.com/nix/store Or with cachix, strip the /nix/store and derivation name and then: curl -sfL https://mycache.cachix.org/serve/rkv4yh7pym941bhj0849zqdkg2546bdv/install \ | sh --tarball-url-prefix https://mycache.cachix.org/serve Fixes #4047
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 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.