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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/design/store/building.md b/doc/manual/src/design/store/building.md index e69de29bb..5adccbc0b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/design/store/building.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/design/store/building.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Building + +## Scanning for references + +Before in the section on [store entries](../entries.md), we talked abstractly about scanning for references. +Now we can make this concrete. + +After the derivation's command is run, Nix needs to process the "raw" output directories to turn them into legit store entries. +There is a few steps of this, but let's start with the simple case of one input-addressed output first. + +\[Overview of things that need to happen.] + +For example, if Nix thinks `/nix/store/asdfasdfasdf-foo` and `/nix/store/qwerqwerqwer-bar` are paths the data might plausibly reference, Nix will scan all the contents of all files recursively for the "hash parts" `asdfasdfasdf`` and `qwerqwerqwer`. + +\[Explain why whitelist.] |