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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 @@ [](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs) [](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs) [](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. |