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This improves error messages when a set or a list is used where a path was expected. For an example, if you used a package set (as opposed to a single package) in systemPackages before this commit, the error was: ``` cannot coerce a list to a string, at "/home/nixpkgs/lib/types.nix":103:37 ``` Now, the error message reads: ``` The option value `environment.systemPackages' in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' is not a list of paths. ```
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 git://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-14.12 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-14.12
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)
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 14.12 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 14.12 release
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