nixpkgs/README.md
Danylo Hlynskyi 2c21f3deeb readme.md: reincarnate wiki (#30243)
* readme.md: reincarnate wiki

It is kinda strange to announce that wiki is deprecated, while it is in fact growing.
I'd say, the "Move-the-wiki" milestone is stalled instead.

* Readme.md: rename to community maintained wiki
2017-10-09 16:32:30 +01:00

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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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