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author | Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net> | 2015-05-22 10:43:03 +0200 |
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committer | Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net> | 2015-05-22 10:43:33 +0200 |
commit | 1b76e29552bbdfcb549261e4c0971e3fbd7cc609 (patch) | |
tree | 712155aabbf4fda5fad2949d25d78127685c88c4 /README.md | |
parent | 87b27c9da530ffaa2aef18ccafcfd2189fa0989b (diff) | |
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README.md: add info about nixpkgs-channels repo
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 86a5568727e..22107050e4f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs) [![Issue Stats](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs/badge/pr)](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs) [![Issue Stats](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs/badge/issue)](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs) -Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package -manager. +Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package manager. It is periodically build and tested by the [hydra](http://hydra.nixos.org/) build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add [nixpkgs-channels](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git) as a remote `git remote add nixpkgs-channels https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git`. It is recommended to maintain custom changes on top of the `nixos-unstable` branch of `nixpkgs-channels`. For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master. [NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) linux distribution source code is located inside `nixos/` folder. |