Bjørn Forsman
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A CACHEDIR.TAG file indicates that the contents can be automatically re-generated. This is not really true for Nix store paths. (Well _Nix_ can recreate them, but that's different.) I noticed this issue as I was restoring full system backup that "for some reason" always missed /nix/store/*-fc-cache (found by `nix-store --verify --repair`). Turns out I was excluding caches from my backup...
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-17.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-17.09
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
NixOS Linux distribution source code is located inside
nixos/ folder.
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