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- Feb 2021
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toraritte.github.io toraritte.github.io
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subscribes you to a channel that always contains that latest version of the Nix Packages collection.
That is a misleading statement. The latest version is where the
master
branch points, isn't it?So a channel points to a Nixpkgs commit (on a branch named after the channel) where all packages inside are deemed stable, and all packages are built to have available binary substitutes by a (hydra) build farm.
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A Nix channel is just a URL that points to a place that contains a set of Nix expressions and a manifest.
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