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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2003-04-08T15·36+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2003-04-08T15·36+0000
commitf56b7312b273546871a1eca7d34c60474d3c4050 (patch)
tree21dd76ea5da74e194dbfc70ae8dc716f65636e21 /scripts
parentcc6eafb3d0a53c8bb02746411d3d41403ce9eb83 (diff)
* Descriptor importing in Fix.
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+#! /usr/bin/perl -w
+
+use strict;
+
+my $pkglist = $ENV{"NIX_ACTIVATIONS"};
+$pkglist or die "NIX_ACTIVATIONS not set";
+my $linkdir = $ENV{"NIX_LINKS"};
+$linkdir or die "NIX_LINKS not set";
+my @dirs = ("bin", "sbin", "lib", "include");
+
+# Figure out a generation number.
+my $nr = 1;
+while (-e "$linkdir/$nr") { $nr++; }
+my $gendir = "$linkdir/$nr";
+print "populating $gendir\n";
+
+# Create the subdirectories.
+mkdir $gendir;
+foreach my $dir (@dirs) {
+    mkdir "$gendir/$dir";
+}
+
+# For each activated package, create symlinks.
+
+sub createLinks {
+    my $srcdir = shift;
+    my $dstdir = shift;
+
+    my @srcfiles = glob("$srcdir/*");
+
+    foreach my $srcfile (@srcfiles) {
+	my $basename = $srcfile;
+	$basename =~ s/^.*\///g; # strip directory
+	my $dstfile = "$dstdir/$basename";
+	if (-d $srcfile) {
+	    # !!! hack for resolving name clashes
+	    if (!-e $dstfile) {
+		mkdir($dstfile) or 
+		    die "error creating directory $dstfile";
+	    }
+	    -d $dstfile or die "$dstfile is not a directory";
+	    createLinks($srcfile, $dstfile);
+	} elsif (-l $dstfile) {
+	    my $target = readlink($dstfile);
+	    die "collission between $srcfile and $target";
+	} else {
+	    print "linking $dstfile to $srcfile\n";
+	    symlink($srcfile, $dstfile) or
+		die "error creating link $dstfile";
+	}
+    }
+}
+
+
+open PKGS, "< $pkglist";
+
+while (<PKGS>) {
+    chomp;
+    my $hash = $_;
+    
+    my $pkgdir = `nix getpkg $hash`;
+    if ($?) { die "`nix getpkg' failed"; }
+    chomp $pkgdir;
+
+    print "merging $pkgdir\n";
+
+    foreach my $dir (@dirs) {
+	createLinks("$pkgdir/$dir", "$gendir/$dir");
+    }
+}
+
+close PKGS;
+
+# Make $gendir the current generation by pointing $linkdir/current to
+# it.  The rename() system call is supposed to be essentially atomic
+# on Unix.  That is, if we have links `current -> X' and `new_current
+# -> Y', and we rename new_current to current, a process accessing
+# current will see X or Y, but never a file-not-found or other error
+# condition.  This is sufficient to atomically switch the current link
+# tree.
+
+my $current = "$linkdir/current";
+
+print "switching $current to $gendir\n"; 
+
+my $tmplink = "$linkdir/new_current";
+symlink($gendir, $tmplink) or die "cannot create $tmplink";
+rename($tmplink, $current) or die "cannot rename $tmplink";
+