Merge pull request #2579 from catern/dumpdb

nix-store: make --dump-db take a list of paths to dump

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/nix-store/nix-store.cc b/src/nix-store/nix-store.cc
index a9ad14762e62..33138baff388 100644
--- a/src/nix-store/nix-store.cc
+++ b/src/nix-store/nix-store.cc
@@ -485,11 +485,16 @@ static void opReadLog(Strings opFlags, Strings opArgs)
 static void opDumpDB(Strings opFlags, Strings opArgs)
 {
     if (!opFlags.empty()) throw UsageError("unknown flag");
-    if (!opArgs.empty())
-        throw UsageError("no arguments expected");
-    PathSet validPaths = store->queryAllValidPaths();
-    for (auto & i : validPaths)
-        cout << store->makeValidityRegistration({i}, true, true);
+    if (!opArgs.empty()) {
+        for (auto & i : opArgs)
+            i = store->followLinksToStorePath(i);
+        for (auto & i : opArgs)
+            cout << store->makeValidityRegistration({i}, true, true);
+    } else {
+        PathSet validPaths = store->queryAllValidPaths();
+        for (auto & i : validPaths)
+            cout << store->makeValidityRegistration({i}, true, true);
+    }
 }