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author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2004-06-20 19:17:54 +0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2004-06-20 19:17:54 +0000 |
commit | 112ee89501a936ad9c492780be6b63f53b2eb9ca (patch) | |
tree | 2070bc757fa986b062b7964619ad927b272fd1de /src/libstore/storeexpr.cc | |
parent | bafb2357d1ab5f7aef8ce4495f5ab8b835359f63 (diff) |
* Re-enable support for substitutes in the normaliser.
* A better substitute mechanism.
Instead of generating a store expression for each store path for
which we have a substitute, we can have a single store expression
that builds a generic program that is invoked to build the desired
store path, which is passed as an argument.
This means that operations like `nix-pull' only produce O(1) files
instead of O(N) files in the store when registering N substitutes.
(It consumes O(N) database storage, of course, but that's not a
performance problem).
* Added a test for the substitute mechanism.
* `nix-store --substitute' reads the substitutes from standard input,
instead of from the command line. This prevents us from running
into the kernel's limit on command line length.
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