From 4494000e04122f24558e1436e66d20d89028b4bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 15:08:18 +0200 Subject: LocalStore: Allow the physical and logical store directories to differ This is primarily to subsume the functionality of the copy-from-other-stores substituter. For example, in the NixOS installer, we can now do (assuming we're in the target chroot, and the Nix store of the installation CD is bind-mounted on /tmp/nix): $ nix-build ... --option substituters 'local?state=/tmp/nix/var&real=/tmp/nix/store' However, unlike copy-from-other-stores, this also allows write access to such a store. One application might be fetching substitutes for /nix/store in a situation where the user doesn't have sufficient privileges to create /nix, e.g.: $ NIX_REMOTE="local?state=/home/alice/nix/var&real=/home/alice/nix/store" nix-build ... --- .gitignore | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to '.gitignore') diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index a175e8dfe..178783d22 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ Makefile.config /scripts/nix-copy-closure /scripts/NixConfig.pm /scripts/NixManifest.pm -/scripts/copy-from-other-stores.pl /scripts/download-from-binary-cache.pl /scripts/find-runtime-roots.pl /scripts/build-remote.pl -- cgit v1.2.3