Linus HeckemannandWill Fancher
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This allows having multiple separate lockfiles for a single project, which can be useful for testing against different versions of nixpkgs; it also allows tracking custom input overrides for remote flakes without requiring local clones of these flakes. For example, if I want to build Nix against my locally pinned nixpkgs, and have a lock file tracking this override independently of future updates to said nixpkgs: nix flake lock --output-lock-file /tmp/nix-flake.lock --override-input nixpkgs flake:nixpkgs nix build --reference-lock-file /tmp/nix-flake.lock Co-Authored-By: Will Fancher <elvishjerricco@gmail.com>
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.