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How easy is it to build your own packages from, say, the tip of the master branch of github repository? How automated is building the dependencies? Building pa
by foobarqux 12y ago
How easy is it to build your own packages from, say, the tip of the master branch of github repository? How automated is building the dependencies?
Building packages on Debian like systems is a huge pain. Arch is much better but I need Debian/Ubuntu-like reliability.
- Doji 12y agoVery easy. git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git cd nixpkgs nix-build -A packagename Building the dependencies is completely automated. For more information, see the nixpkgs contributor's guide: http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/ http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/ Note that the above command will simply download cached binaries where they are available, but if you make any changes to the build scripts nix will notice rebuild locally instead. This gives you the benefits of both source based and binary based package managers.
- foobarqux 12y agoIs there no Ubuntu 14.10 nix package?