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This improves the error message of nix-env -qa, among others, which is crucial for understanding some ofborg eval error reports, such as https://gist.github.com/GrahamcOfBorg/89101ca9c2c855d288178f1d3c78efef After this change, it will report the same trace, but also start with ``` error: … while evaluating the attribute 'devShellTools' … while evaluating the attribute 'nixos' … while evaluating the attribute 'docker-tools-nix-shell' … while evaluating the attribute 'aarch64-darwin' … from call site at /home/user/h/nixpkgs/outpaths.nix:48:6: 47| tweak = lib.mapAttrs 48| (name: val: | ^ 49| if name == "recurseForDerivations" then true <same> ``` |
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Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation and first steps
Visit nix.dev for installation instructions and beginner tutorials.
Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.
Building and developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
Contributing
Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
Additional resources
Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
- The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org
- Official documentation on nix.dev
- Nixpkgs is the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world
- NixOS is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
- Discourse
- Matrix
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.