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2019-12-18nix make-content-addressable: Add --json flagEelco Dolstra
Fixes #3274.
2019-12-10Make the Store API more type-safeEelco Dolstra
Most functions now take a StorePath argument rather than a Path (which is just an alias for std::string). The StorePath constructor ensures that the path is syntactically correct (i.e. it looks like <store-dir>/<base32-hash>-<name>). Similarly, functions like buildPaths() now take a StorePathWithOutputs, rather than abusing Path by adding a '!<outputs>' suffix. Note that the StorePath type is implemented in Rust. This involves some hackery to allow Rust values to be used directly in C++, via a helper type whose destructor calls the Rust type's drop() function. The main issue is the dynamic nature of C++ move semantics: after we have moved a Rust value, we should not call the drop function on the original value. So when we move a value, we set the original value to bitwise zero, and the destructor only calls drop() if the value is not bitwise zero. This should be sufficient for most types. Also lots of minor cleanups to the C++ API to make it more modern (e.g. using std::optional and std::string_view in some places).
2019-12-05Make subcommand construction in MultiCommand lazyEelco Dolstra
(cherry picked from commit a0de58f471c9087d8e6cc60a6078f9940a125b15)
2019-10-21nix make-content-addressable: Add examplesEelco Dolstra
2019-10-21Allow content-addressable paths to have referencesEelco Dolstra
This adds a command 'nix make-content-addressable' that rewrites the specified store paths into content-addressable paths. The advantage of such paths is that 1) they can be imported without signatures; 2) they can enable deduplication in cases where derivation changes do not cause output changes (apart from store path hashes). For example, $ nix make-content-addressable -r nixpkgs.cowsay rewrote '/nix/store/g1g31ah55xdia1jdqabv1imf6mcw0nb1-glibc-2.25-49' to '/nix/store/48jfj7bg78a8n4f2nhg269rgw1936vj4-glibc-2.25-49' ... rewrote '/nix/store/qbi6rzpk0bxjw8lw6azn2mc7ynnn455q-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16' to '/nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16' We can then copy the resulting closure to another store without signatures: $ nix copy --trusted-public-keys '' ---to ~/my-nix /nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16 In order to support self-references in content-addressable paths, these paths are hashed "modulo" self-references, meaning that self-references are zeroed out during hashing. Somewhat annoyingly, this means that the NAR hash stored in the Nix database is no longer necessarily equal to the output of "nix hash-path"; for content-addressable paths, you need to pass the --modulo flag: $ nix path-info --json /nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16 | jq -r .[].narHash sha256:0ri611gdilz2c9rsibqhsipbfs9vwcqvs811a52i2bnkhv7w9mgw $ nix hash-path --type sha256 --base32 /nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16 1ggznh07khq0hz6id09pqws3a8q9pn03ya3c03nwck1kwq8rclzs $ nix hash-path --type sha256 --base32 /nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16 --modulo iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67 0ri611gdilz2c9rsibqhsipbfs9vwcqvs811a52i2bnkhv7w9mgw