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Brian McKenna ebb911cc0b dockerTools: remove tarballs functionality 
I think the intention of this functionality was to provide a simple
alternative to the "runAsRoot" and "contents" attributes.

The implementation caused very slow builds of Docker images. Almost all
of the build time was spent in IO for tar, due to tarballs being
created, immediately extracted, then recreated. I had 30 minute builds
on some of my images which are now down to less than 2 minutes. A couple
of other users on #nix IRC have observed similar improvements.

The implementation also mutated the produced Docker layers without
changing their hashes. Using non-empty tarballs would produce images
which got cached incorrectly in Docker.

I have a commit which just fixes the performance problem but I opted to
completely remove the tarball feature after I found out that it didn't
correctly implement the Docker Image Specification due to the broken
hashing.
2016-04-11 16:32:43 +10:00
.github fixup! Simplify contributing 2016-04-09 20:51:26 +01:00
doc nixpkgs manual introduction: improve 2016-04-05 10:06:10 +02:00
lib Merge pull request #14518 from CrystalGamma/master 2016-04-09 17:47:15 +02:00
maintainers find-tarballs.nix: Handle stdenv bootstrap fetchurl 2016-04-08 14:00:47 +02:00
nixos nixos/xserver: Use null as default for dpi option 2016-04-10 17:46:17 +02:00
pkgs dockerTools: remove tarballs functionality 2016-04-11 16:32:43 +10:00
.gitignore kde5: consolidate packages into desktops/kde-5 2016-03-01 10:36:00 -06:00
.mention-bot Blacklist jhasse 2016-03-05 23:23:19 +01:00
.travis.yml travis-ci: use trusty (has 7.5G ram compared to previous 3) 2015-11-02 13:04:03 +01:00
.version as always, no newline in .version 2016-02-28 23:39:38 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: Update year range to 2016 (close #12621) 2016-01-26 10:10:45 +01:00
default.nix Extract the top-level logic out of all-packages.nix into pkgs/top-level/default.nix 2016-03-20 16:28:18 +00:00
README.md README: 15.09 -> 16.03 2016-04-04 14:42:07 -04:00

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Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:

% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git

For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-16.03 for the latest release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:

% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-16.03

For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.

NixOS linux distribution source code is located inside nixos/ folder.

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