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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-10-24T13·16+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-10-24T13·32+0200
commitd16fd2497374671c92cb877f9570d65783a77d99 (patch)
treece2a871f4d9e5a65108768f1f8584cd545cbd6ac /src/libstore
parent3460e4cf007017e89096b4fad083692666b87a20 (diff)
Allow shorter syntax for chroot stores
You can now say '--store /tmp/nix' instead of '--store local?root=/tmp/nix'.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libstore')
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/machines.cc6
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/store-api.cc10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/machines.cc b/src/libstore/machines.cc
index d2faf45357e3..edd03d147832 100644
--- a/src/libstore/machines.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/machines.cc
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ Machine::Machine(decltype(storeUri) storeUri,
     storeUri(
         // Backwards compatibility: if the URI is a hostname,
         // prepend ssh://.
-        storeUri.find("://") != std::string::npos || hasPrefix(storeUri, "local") || hasPrefix(storeUri, "remote") || hasPrefix(storeUri, "auto")
+        storeUri.find("://") != std::string::npos
+        || hasPrefix(storeUri, "local")
+        || hasPrefix(storeUri, "remote")
+        || hasPrefix(storeUri, "auto")
+        || hasPrefix(storeUri, "/")
         ? storeUri
         : "ssh://" + storeUri),
     systemTypes(systemTypes),
diff --git a/src/libstore/store-api.cc b/src/libstore/store-api.cc
index 17237a03541c..c57e42fec00d 100644
--- a/src/libstore/store-api.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/store-api.cc
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ StoreType getStoreType(const std::string & uri, const std::string & stateDir)
 {
     if (uri == "daemon") {
         return tDaemon;
-    } else if (uri == "local") {
+    } else if (uri == "local" || hasPrefix(uri, "/")) {
         return tLocal;
     } else if (uri == "" || uri == "auto") {
         if (access(stateDir.c_str(), R_OK | W_OK) == 0)
@@ -865,8 +865,12 @@ static RegisterStoreImplementation regStore([](
     switch (getStoreType(uri, get(params, "state", settings.nixStateDir))) {
         case tDaemon:
             return std::shared_ptr<Store>(std::make_shared<UDSRemoteStore>(params));
-        case tLocal:
-            return std::shared_ptr<Store>(std::make_shared<LocalStore>(params));
+        case tLocal: {
+            Store::Params params2 = params;
+            if (hasPrefix(uri, "/"))
+                params2["root"] = uri;
+            return std::shared_ptr<Store>(std::make_shared<LocalStore>(params2));
+        }
         default:
             return nullptr;
     }