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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2003-05-25T22·42+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2003-05-25T22·42+0000
commit7dd91d3779b4f806ac0085e0ccc60416d81c1148 (patch)
treee4c5f7e8d8978df671050fae0c25639cca79e251 /test/fixdescriptors/system.fix
parent0ef4b6d0f8dcaec093e3db366b6dfb6ba47f73a6 (diff)
* Prebuilt package sharing. We allow transparent binary deployment by
  sharing package directories (i.e., the result of building a Nix
  descriptor).

  `nix-pull-prebuilts' obtains a list of all known prebuilts by
  consulting the paths and URLs specified in
  $prefix/etc/nix/prebuilts.conf.  The mappings ($pkghash,
  $prebuilthash) and ($prebuilthash, $location) are registered with
  Nix so that it can use the prebuilt with hash $prebuilthash when
  installing a package with hash $pkghash by downloading and unpacking
  $location.

  `nix-push-prebuilts' creates prebuilts for all packages for which no
  prebuilt is known to exist.  It can then optionally upload these
  to the network through rsync.

  `nix-[pull|push]-prebuilts' just provide a policy.  Nix provides the
  mechanism through the `nix [export|regprebuilt|regurl]' commands.


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