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Tutorials
Nix
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Nix Pills Chapter 3: Enter the Environment
Installation with
nix-env, rollback and switching generations, showing references and closures.- Reading time: 7 min
- Author: Luca Bruno
- Created: 2015 (effectively unmaintained since 2017)
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Nix Pills Chapter 6. Our First Derivation
Fundamentals of Nix derivations, function and concept,
nix show-derivation. Derivation set and its attributes.- Reading time: 20 min
- Author: Luca Bruno
- Created: 2015 (effectively unmaintained since 2017)
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Nix Pills Chapter 7. Working Derivation
Fundamentals of Nix derivations, bash,
nix repl,nix-store,nix-instantiate,nix show-derivation. Packaging a simple C program,inheritkeyword.- Reading time: 16 min
- Author: Luca Bruno
- Created: 2015 (effectively unmaintained since 2017)
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Nix Pills Chapter 11. Garbage Collector Fundamentals of Nix garbage collection,
nix-collect-garbage,nix-env,nix-store,nix-build.- Reading time: 14 min
- Author: Luca Bruno
- Created: 2015 (effectively unmaintained since 2017)
Nix language
- https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/nix/
- https://nixcloud.io/tour/?id=1
- https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/nix-by-example-a0063a1a4c55
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCapIx9heBw&list=PL-saUBvIJzOkjAw_vOac75v-x6EzNzZq-&index=5
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/basics-of-language.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/functions-and-imports.html
Nixpkgs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGekN4pDExY&list=PL-saUBvIJzOkjAw_vOac75v-x6EzNzZq-&index=6
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4sv2M9jRLg
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/generic-builders.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/automatic-runtime-dependencies.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/developing-with-nix-shell.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/inputs-design-pattern.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/callpackage-design-pattern.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/override-design-pattern.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/nixpkgs-parameters.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/nixpkgs-overriding-packages.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/fundamentals-of-stdenv.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/basic-dependencies-and-hooks.html
NixOS
How-To Guides
Nix
- https://nix.dev/tutorials/ad-hoc-developer-environments#what-is-a-shell-environment
- https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Cookbook#Managing_storage
Nix language
Nixpkgs
- https://nixos.wiki/wiki/FAQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_IZ2EfW_8U
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K_2RSjbdXc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGAL3gMXvug
- https://nix.dev/tutorials/towards-reproducibility-pinning-nixpkgs
- https://nix.dev/tutorials/declarative-and-reproducible-developer-environments
- https://nix.dev/tutorials/cross-compilation.html
- https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable
NixOS
- https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-bootable-iso-image.html
- https://nix.dev/tutorials/deploying-nixos-using-terraform.html
- https://nix.dev/tutorials/installing-nixos-on-a-raspberry-pi.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkDYmvKINm8
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_vbddNXtg
- https://github.com/noteed/nix-notes
- https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/
Explanation
Nix
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/index.html
- partially in chapter https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/automatic-runtime-dependencies.html
- https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/garbage-collector.html
- https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
Nix language
Nixpkgs
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partially in chapter https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/our-first-derivation.html
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https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/inputs-design-pattern.html
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https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/callpackage-design-pattern.html
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https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/callpackage-design-pattern.html
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partially in https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
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https://www.zombiezen.com/blog/2023/03/connecting-bash-to-nix/
Configure derivation using only Bash and
builtins. Explainsbuiltins.derivation, attributes,nix build, store path hierarchy, imports. Relates this to `stdenv.mkDerivation.- Reading time: 10 min
- Author: Ross Light
- Created: 2023
NixOS
Reference
Nix
- https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/command-ref.html
- https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
Nix language
- https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
- https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/expressions/writing-nix-expressions.html
- https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p