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author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2004-06-20T19·17+0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2004-06-20T19·17+0000 |
commit | 112ee89501a936ad9c492780be6b63f53b2eb9ca (patch) | |
tree | 2070bc757fa986b062b7964619ad927b272fd1de /externals | |
parent | bafb2357d1ab5f7aef8ce4495f5ab8b835359f63 (diff) |
* Re-enable support for substitutes in the normaliser.
* A better substitute mechanism. Instead of generating a store expression for each store path for which we have a substitute, we can have a single store expression that builds a generic program that is invoked to build the desired store path, which is passed as an argument. This means that operations like `nix-pull' only produce O(1) files instead of O(N) files in the store when registering N substitutes. (It consumes O(N) database storage, of course, but that's not a performance problem). * Added a test for the substitute mechanism. * `nix-store --substitute' reads the substitutes from standard input, instead of from the command line. This prevents us from running into the kernel's limit on command line length.
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