1[<img src="http://nixos.org/logo/nixos-hires.png" width="500px" alt="logo" />](https://nixos.org/nixos) 2 3[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs) 4[![Code Triagers Badge](https://www.codetriage.com/nixos/nixpkgs/badges/users.svg)](https://www.codetriage.com/nixos/nixpkgs) 5 6Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package 7manager. It is periodically built and tested by the [hydra](http://hydra.nixos.org/) 8build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add 9[nixpkgs-channels](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git) as a remote: 10 11``` 12% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git 13``` 14 15For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain 16custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. `nixos-17.03` for the latest 17release and `nixos-unstable` for the latest successful build of master: 18 19``` 20% git remote update channels 21% git rebase channels/nixos-17.03 22``` 23 24For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs `master`. 25 26[NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) linux distribution source code is located inside 27`nixos/` folder. 28 29* [NixOS installation instructions](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-installation) 30* [Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)](https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language) 31* [Manual (How to write packages for Nix)](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/) 32* [Manual (NixOS)](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/) 33* [Nix Wiki](https://nixos.org/wiki/) (deprecated, see milestone ["Move the Wiki!"](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Move+the+wiki%21%22)) 34* [Continuous package builds for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/trunk-combined) 35* [Continuous package builds for 17.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-17.03) 36* [Tests for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/tested#tabs-constituents) 37* [Tests for 17.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-17.03/tested#tabs-constituents) 38 39Communication: 40 41* [Mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nix-devel) 42* [IRC - #nixos on freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos)