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author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2007-08-12T00·29+0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2007-08-12T00·29+0000 |
commit | 9e975458b48d9eb041a6484c634be2ee8ee1649d (patch) | |
tree | b33e7a1b769d5b82dd565113638ee4e8311eed4e /INSTALL | |
parent | 4695f4edd6925147a59befefce1c66d34bb2d0e4 (diff) |
* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly. This means that it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster (NIX-95). Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with each other. The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external program to get the substitutes info. For instance, "nix-env -qas" takes a bit longer. Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid paths. On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR" on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway). * Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
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