Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages
like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell -- they
are built by functions that don't have side-effects, and they never change
after they have been built. Nix stores packages in the Nix store, usually the
directory /nix/store, where each package has its own unique subdirectory such
as
/nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0kjfwrjmg1vfhh54ad73z-firefox-33.1/
where b6gvzjyb2pg0... is a unique identifier for the package that captures all
its dependencies (it's a cryptographic hash of the package's build dependency
graph). This enables many powerful features.
===> The following configuration options are available for nix-2.32.4_6:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
sysutils/nix: fix build on armv7 and powerpc*
No libatomic on FreeBSD.
Also move manuals to PORTDOCS, the file names seem to be somewhat
architecture-dependent.
Approved by: portmgr (build fix blanket)
MFH: 2026Q1
sysutils/nix: Mark BROKEN, deprecate and set expiration date to 2025-03-31
Outdated and broken for months
PR: 284647
Reported by: pkg-fallout
Approved by: portmgr (maintainer timeout, 2+ weeks)
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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Add Nix, a purely functional package manager
Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats
packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as
Haskell -- they are built by functions that don't have side-effects,
and they never change after they have been built.
FreeBSD support in Nix is not fully complete yet. This commit only
brings the Nix package manager to the ports. Hopefully, this port will
streamline the work of bootstrapping of Nix packages on FreeBSD.
Thanks to all the kind folks who contributed to the porting efforts.
It was a fun journey.
WWW: https://nixos.org/nix/
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17766
