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Explain (briefly) how to get an archive link

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Description

In https://nix.dev/tutorials/ad-hoc-developer-environments.html#towards-reproducibility , nixpkgs is explictly set to an archive link.

It would be nice if it was described how to get this link -- even better if nix had an easy way of providing it, so I could quickly snapshot "my current" nix install to send to other people.

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Read the “Towards reproducibility” section at nix.dev/tutorials/ad-hoc-developer-environments.html#towards-reproducibility and inspect how the nixpkgs archive link is currently used. Document how readers can obtain such a link, and treat the request for an automatic snapshot mechanism as a separate scope question; done means the tutorial explains the process clearly.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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