Building ancient nixpkgs: Difference between revisions

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Nix's reproducibility allows for easy building of ancient nixpkgs checkouts.
Nix's reproducibility allows for easy building of ancient nixpkgs checkouts.


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<code>nix-build</code> may fail while trying to fetch a package from a 3rd-party mirror.  
<code>nix-build</code> may fail while trying to fetch a package from a 3rd-party mirror.  
If this happens, you will need to search the internet for another mirror from which you can fetch the package; for certain nixpkgs versions you will need to ensure it does not force-redirect to SSL as <code>curl</code> was not built with SSL support in early versions.
If this happens, you will need to search the internet for another mirror from which you can fetch the package; for certain nixpkgs versions you will need to ensure it does not force-redirect to SSL as <code>curl</code> was not built with SSL support in early versions.
[[Category:Cookbook]]