* Add an API function exportPaths() that provides the functionality of

  ‘nix-store --export’.
* Add a Perl module that provides the functionality of
  ‘nix-copy-closure --to’.  This is used by build-remote.pl so it no
  longer needs to start a separate nix-copy-closure process.  Also, it
  uses the Perl API to do the export, so it doesn't need to start a
  separate nix-store process either.  As a result, nix-copy-closure
  and build-remote.pl should no longer fail on very large closures due
  to an "Argument list too long" error.  (Note that having very many
  dependencies in a single derivation can still fail because the
  environment can become too large.  Can't be helped though.)

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/store-api.cc b/src/libstore/store-api.cc
index d67ff2c772..36ade21708 100644
--- a/src/libstore/store-api.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/store-api.cc
@@ -298,6 +298,17 @@ string showPaths(const PathSet & paths)
 }
 
 
+void exportPaths(StoreAPI & store, const Paths & paths,
+    bool sign, Sink & sink)
+{
+    foreach (Paths::const_iterator, i, paths) {
+        writeInt(1, sink);
+        store.exportPath(*i, sign, sink);
+    }
+    writeInt(0, sink);
+}
+
+
 }