* 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)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/nix-pack-closure.in b/scripts/nix-pack-closure.in
index 6c0e85d2a69a..bc58097e25c1 100644
--- a/scripts/nix-pack-closure.in
+++ b/scripts/nix-pack-closure.in
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ mkdir "$tmpDir/contents", 0777 or die;
 mkdir "$tmpDir/references", 0777 or die;
 mkdir "$tmpDir/derivers", 0777 or die;
 
+open TOPLEVEL, ">$tmpDir/top-level" or die;
 
 
 my %storePaths;
@@ -29,6 +30,12 @@ my %storePaths;
 while (@ARGV) {
     my $storePath = shift @ARGV;
 
+    # $storePath might be a symlink to the store, so resolve it.
+    $storePath = (`$binDir/nix-store --query --resolve '$storePath'`
+        or die "cannot resolve `$storePath'");
+    chomp $storePath;
+    print TOPLEVEL $storePath, "\n";
+
     # Get the closure of this path.
     my $pid = open(READ,
         "$binDir/nix-store --query --requisites '$storePath'|") or die;