[Nix-dev] Making a custom installation tarball

Nikita Karetnikov nikita at karetnikov.org
Fri Dec 26 09:14:27 CET 2014


I’d like to make an installation tarball with a custom set of packages.
I’ve been pointed to [1], which is a Hydra job.  Is it possible without
Hydra?  Could anyone explain in detail what I need to do?  (It’d be
great to create a wiki page for this.)

[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/make-tarball.nix


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