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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-11-16T16·25+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-11-16T16·25+0000
commitd7d7910ba48d898bda2db92a4f16a6179c855f7d (patch)
tree74ac78c9e7334d2ac388feb97d67c2c2213e5335 /perl/lib/Nix
parent63ee5e4d2a46c3619c59307d7dbb08f25d32c3e8 (diff)
* Don't decompress the manifests in /nix/var/nix/manifest. This saves
  disk space, and, since they're typically only decompressed once (to
  fill the manifest cache), doesn't make things slower.

Diffstat (limited to 'perl/lib/Nix')
-rw-r--r--perl/lib/Nix/Manifest.pm10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/Manifest.pm b/perl/lib/Nix/Manifest.pm
index 21c61d284faf..9c891abb8bd9 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/Manifest.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/Manifest.pm
@@ -53,8 +53,14 @@ sub addPatch {
 sub readManifest_ {
     my ($manifest, $addNAR, $addPatch) = @_;
 
-    open MANIFEST, "<$manifest"
-        or die "cannot open `$manifest': $!";
+    # Decompress the manifest if necessary.
+    if ($manifest =~ /\.bz2$/) {
+        open MANIFEST, "$Nix::Config::bzip2 -d < $manifest |"
+            or die "cannot decompress `$manifest': $!";
+    } else {
+        open MANIFEST, "<$manifest"
+            or die "cannot open `$manifest': $!";
+    }
 
     my $inside = 0;
     my $type;