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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2007-01-13T19·50+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2007-01-13T19·50+0000 |
| commit | afe23b5f385901ba5972ce88b2f053526c5097a9 (patch) | |
| tree | fc65ae5a14e7260f130cd4417d7069b0ededdc60 /doc/manual/nix-unpack-closure.xml | |
| parent | f25f9000451ec5b9fb3221cdf2a297fe24ab7357 (diff) | |
* nix-pack-closure: store the top-level store paths in the closure.
* nix-unpack-closure: extract the top-level paths from the closure and print them on stdout. This allows them to be installed, e.g., "nix-env -i $(nix-unpack-closure)". (NIX-64)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/nix-unpack-closure.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/nix-unpack-closure.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-unpack-closure.xml b/doc/manual/nix-unpack-closure.xml index 7c6d12d089a4..e95225e819a0 100644 --- a/doc/manual/nix-unpack-closure.xml +++ b/doc/manual/nix-unpack-closure.xml @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ closure is a single file read from standard input. See the description of <command>nix-pack-closure</command> for details and examples.</para> +<para>The top-level paths in the closure (i.e., the paths passed to +the original <command>nix-pack-closure</command> call that created the +closure) are printed on standard output. These paths can be passed, +for instance, to <literal>nix-env -i</literal> to install them into a +user environment on the target machine.</para> + </refsection> |