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authorShea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>2013-12-05T16·51-0500
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-12-10T14·07+0100
commit22d665019a3770148929b7504c73bcdbe025ec12 (patch)
treec0b858911e4b71436e8e92f25cf00a9720149796
parenta6add93d734279db8503951ac6466c275b3c8e4e (diff)
builtins.storePath: Try to substitute the path if it is not yet valid
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
-rw-r--r--src/libexpr/primops.cc4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index 9c9d202eda63..6d09bb7b13ba 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -582,8 +582,8 @@ static void prim_storePath(EvalState & state, Value * * args, Value & v)
     if (!isInStore(path))
         throw EvalError(format("path `%1%' is not in the Nix store") % path);
     Path path2 = toStorePath(path);
-    if (!store->isValidPath(path2))
-        throw EvalError(format("store path `%1%' is not valid") % path2);
+    if (!settings.readOnlyMode)
+        store->ensurePath(path2);
     context.insert(path2);
     mkString(v, path, context);
 }