Nixpkgs Versioning

Identifier: nixpkgs

References:

• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

Ranges/Constraints:

❌ No range support.

Description:

Nixpkgs versioning is designed to be used with the nix manager.

NixOS releases follow the YY.MM pattern. There are also some prefixes and suffixes allowed. Using 22.05 as an example the allowed combination of prefixes and suffixes are:

• release-22.05
• nixos-22.05
• nixos-22.05-small
• nixos-22.05-aarch64
• nixpkgs-22.05-darwin

Additionally, there are some floating versions:

• nixos-unstable
• nixos-unstable-small
• nixpkgs-unstable

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