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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-10-16T15·55+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-10-16T15·55+0000
commitd7efd7639420f4c840cbfdfcbbb3c45292f3ac54 (patch)
treed48871893e6d3446b6298b0e5e612086233e3947 /src/nix-env
parent4c9aa821b985b8e334790a03497a56af3a021f3b (diff)
* Big cleanup of the semantics of paths, strings, contexts, string
  concatenation and string coercion.  This was a big mess (see
  e.g. NIX-67).  Contexts are now folded into strings, so that they
  don't cause evaluation errors when they're not expected.  The
  semantics of paths has been clarified (see nixexpr-ast.def).
  toString() and coerceToString() have been merged.

  Semantic change: paths are now copied to the store when they're in a
  concatenation (and in most other situations - that's the
  formalisation of the meaning of a path).  So

    "foo " + ./bla

  evaluates to "foo /nix/store/hash...-bla", not "foo
  /path/to/current-dir/bla".  This prevents accidental impurities, and
  is more consistent with the treatment of derivation outputs, e.g.,
  `"foo " + bla' where `bla' is a derivation.  (Here `bla' would be
  replaced by the output path of `bla'.)

Diffstat (limited to 'src/nix-env')
-rw-r--r--src/nix-env/main.cc16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix-env/main.cc b/src/nix-env/main.cc
index 6a4038715019..b55fc2246e94 100644
--- a/src/nix-env/main.cc
+++ b/src/nix-env/main.cc
@@ -167,18 +167,18 @@ static void createUserEnv(EvalState & state, const DrvInfos & elems,
         Path drvPath = keepDerivations ? i->queryDrvPath(state) : "";
         ATerm t = makeAttrs(ATmakeList5(
             makeBind(toATerm("type"),
-                makeStr(toATerm("derivation")), makeNoPos()),
+                makeStr("derivation"), makeNoPos()),
             makeBind(toATerm("name"),
-                makeStr(toATerm(i->name)), makeNoPos()),
+                makeStr(i->name), makeNoPos()),
             makeBind(toATerm("system"),
-                makeStr(toATerm(i->system)), makeNoPos()),
+                makeStr(i->system), makeNoPos()),
             makeBind(toATerm("drvPath"),
-                makePath(toATerm(drvPath)), makeNoPos()),
+                makeStr(drvPath), makeNoPos()),
             makeBind(toATerm("outPath"),
-                makePath(toATerm(i->queryOutPath(state))), makeNoPos())
+                makeStr(i->queryOutPath(state)), makeNoPos())
             ));
         manifest = ATinsert(manifest, t);
-        inputs = ATinsert(inputs, makeStr(toATerm(i->queryOutPath(state))));
+        inputs = ATinsert(inputs, makeStr(i->queryOutPath(state)));
 
         /* This is only necessary when installing store paths, e.g.,
            `nix-env -i /nix/store/abcd...-foo'. */
@@ -196,11 +196,11 @@ static void createUserEnv(EvalState & state, const DrvInfos & elems,
 
     Expr topLevel = makeCall(envBuilder, makeAttrs(ATmakeList3(
         makeBind(toATerm("system"),
-            makeStr(toATerm(thisSystem)), makeNoPos()),
+            makeStr(thisSystem), makeNoPos()),
         makeBind(toATerm("derivations"),
             makeList(ATreverse(inputs)), makeNoPos()),
         makeBind(toATerm("manifest"),
-            makePath(toATerm(manifestFile)), makeNoPos())
+            makeStr(manifestFile), makeNoPos())
         )));
 
     /* Instantiate it. */