Bjørn Forsman
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Currently the package is built with /var in $out/var. That fails when it tries to create/write things at runtime (nix store is read-only). Instead, tell it to use /var (global directory) and fixup the installation phase so it doesn't touch /var (leave that for runtime). This unbreaks the colord dbus service, which apparently is needed by cups to create color profiles for printers.
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-15.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-15.09
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)
- Nix Wiki
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 15.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 15.09 release
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