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-rw-r--r--src/libstore/build.cc1
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/store-api.cc11
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/store-api.hh23
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/build.cc b/src/libstore/build.cc
index ec3684632..a9649ea37 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build.cc
@@ -1862,6 +1862,7 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
dirsInChroot[i] = r;
else {
Path p = chrootRootDir + i;
+ debug("linking ‘%1%’ to ‘%2%’", p, r);
if (link(r.c_str(), p.c_str()) == -1) {
/* Hard-linking fails if we exceed the maximum
link count on a file (e.g. 32000 of ext3),
diff --git a/src/libstore/store-api.cc b/src/libstore/store-api.cc
index 850ea211d..75de4c933 100644
--- a/src/libstore/store-api.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/store-api.cc
@@ -709,10 +709,11 @@ namespace nix {
RegisterStoreImplementation::Implementations * RegisterStoreImplementation::implementations = 0;
-ref<Store> openStore(const std::string & uri_)
+ref<Store> openStore(const std::string & uri_,
+ const Store::Params & extraParams)
{
auto uri(uri_);
- Store::Params params;
+ Store::Params params(extraParams);
auto q = uri.find('?');
if (q != std::string::npos) {
for (auto s : tokenizeString<Strings>(uri.substr(q + 1), "&")) {
@@ -722,11 +723,7 @@ ref<Store> openStore(const std::string & uri_)
}
uri = uri_.substr(0, q);
}
- return openStore(uri, params);
-}
-ref<Store> openStore(const std::string & uri, const Store::Params & params)
-{
for (auto fun : *RegisterStoreImplementation::implementations) {
auto store = fun(uri, params);
if (store) {
@@ -735,7 +732,7 @@ ref<Store> openStore(const std::string & uri, const Store::Params & params)
}
}
- throw Error(format("don't know how to open Nix store ‘%s’") % uri);
+ throw Error("don't know how to open Nix store ‘%s’", uri);
}
diff --git a/src/libstore/store-api.hh b/src/libstore/store-api.hh
index b763849ad..2388558b3 100644
--- a/src/libstore/store-api.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/store-api.hh
@@ -668,20 +668,31 @@ void removeTempRoots();
/* Return a Store object to access the Nix store denoted by
‘uri’ (slight misnomer...). Supported values are:
- * ‘direct’: The Nix store in /nix/store and database in
+ * ‘local’: The Nix store in /nix/store and database in
/nix/var/nix/db, accessed directly.
* ‘daemon’: The Nix store accessed via a Unix domain socket
connection to nix-daemon.
+ * ‘auto’ or ‘’: Equivalent to ‘local’ or ‘daemon’ depending on
+ whether the user has write access to the local Nix
+ store/database.
+
* ‘file://<path>’: A binary cache stored in <path>.
- If ‘uri’ is empty, it defaults to ‘direct’ or ‘daemon’ depending on
- whether the user has write access to the local Nix store/database.
- set to true *unless* you're going to collect garbage. */
-ref<Store> openStore(const std::string & uri = getEnv("NIX_REMOTE"));
+ * ‘https://<path>’: A binary cache accessed via HTTP.
+
+ * ‘s3://<path>’: A writable binary cache stored on Amazon's Simple
+ Storage Service.
+
+ * ‘ssh://[user@]<host>’: A remote Nix store accessed by running
+ ‘nix-store --serve’ via SSH.
-ref<Store> openStore(const std::string & uri, const Store::Params & params);
+ You can pass parameters to the store implementation by appending
+ ‘?key=value&key=value&...’ to the URI.
+*/
+ref<Store> openStore(const std::string & uri = getEnv("NIX_REMOTE"),
+ const Store::Params & extraParams = Store::Params());
void copyPaths(ref<Store> from, ref<Store> to, const PathSet & storePaths, bool substitute = false);