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Diffstat (limited to 'src/globals.hh')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/globals.hh | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/globals.hh b/src/globals.hh index 107d617bc895..b140f136c9cb 100644 --- a/src/globals.hh +++ b/src/globals.hh @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ extern TableId dbId2Paths; /* dbSuccessors :: FSId -> FSId Each pair $(id_1, id_2)$ in this mapping records the fact that a - successor of an fstate expression stored in a file with identifier + successor of a Nix expression stored in a file with identifier $id_1$ is stored in a file with identifier $id_2$. Note that a term $y$ is successor of $x$ iff there exists a @@ -41,15 +41,14 @@ extern TableId dbSuccessors; /* dbSubstitutes :: FSId -> [FSId] Each pair $(id, [ids])$ tells Nix that it can realise any of the - fstate expressions referenced by the identifiers in $ids$ to + Nix expressions referenced by the identifiers in $ids$ to generate a path with identifier $id$. The main purpose of this is for distributed caching of derivates. One system can compute a derivate with hash $h$ and put it on a website (as a Nix archive), for instance, and then another system can register a substitute for that derivate. The substitute in - this case might be an fstate expression that fetches the Nix - archive. + this case might be a Nix expression that fetches the Nix archive. */ extern TableId dbSubstitutes; |