* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we

  need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters
  (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly.  This means that
  it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for
  nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster
  (NIX-95).  Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull
  manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with
  each other.

  The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external
  program to get the substitutes info.  For instance, "nix-env -qas"
  takes a bit longer.

  Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in
  local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid
  paths.  On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR"
  on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway).

* Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/db.hh b/src/libstore/db.hh
index 54f490f885d5..8672fbc863f5 100644
--- a/src/libstore/db.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/db.hh
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ public:
 
     void enumTable(const Transaction & txn, TableId table,
         Strings & keys, const string & keyPrefix = "");
+
+    void clearTable(const Transaction & txn, TableId table);
 };