[Nix-dev] Stripped down Linux distribution based on Nix/NixOS

[Michael Raskin]

>> Hydra is the CI system to use with nix.
>>
>Sure, but regardless of which CI system, my concern is that the Nix
>expressions generally contain explicit checksums for the inputs which may
>be onerous when what I really want to do is dynamically generate a set of
>kernel patches from a set of git branches on a particular git repository.
>I'm curious if/how people have addressed that issue.

I think Hydra can work with checkouts using them as parameters to Nix 
expressions.

In many cases people use scripts to generate Nix expressions
corresponding to the latest suitable state of some set of repositories.