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imported>Dezgeg
How do I enable chrooted builds on non-NixOS?: Fix plainly incorrect information
imported>Dezgeg
Comment out dangerous suggestions of mounting /nix/store rw
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<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">nix-instantiate --find-file nixpkgs</syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">nix-instantiate --find-file nixpkgs</syntaxhighlight>
To know the commit, open the .version-suffix file in the nixpkgs location. The hash after the dot is the git commit.
To know the commit, open the .version-suffix file in the nixpkgs location. The hash after the dot is the git commit.
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== An error occurs while fetching sources from an url, how do I fix it? ==
== An error occurs while fetching sources from an url, how do I fix it? ==
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Be sure to [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues report the incorrect url] or [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls fix it yourself].
Be sure to [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues report the incorrect url] or [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls fix it yourself].


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== How do I know the sha256 to use with fetchgit/fetchsvn/fetchbzr/fetchcvs? ==
== How do I know the sha256 to use with fetchgit/fetchsvn/fetchbzr/fetchcvs? ==