* 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, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/nix-store/nix-store.cc b/src/nix-store/nix-store.cc
index 371ca54af07c..84d3da032c2e 100644
--- a/src/nix-store/nix-store.cc
+++ b/src/nix-store/nix-store.cc
@@ -594,11 +594,7 @@ static void opExport(Strings opFlags, Strings opArgs)
         else throw UsageError(format("unknown flag `%1%'") % *i);
 
     FdSink sink(STDOUT_FILENO);
-    for (Strings::iterator i = opArgs.begin(); i != opArgs.end(); ++i) {
-        writeInt(1, sink);
-        store->exportPath(*i, sign, sink);
-    }
-    writeInt(0, sink);
+    exportPaths(*store, opArgs, sign, sink);
 }