* Re-enable support for substitutes in the normaliser.

* A better substitute mechanism.

  Instead of generating a store expression for each store path for
  which we have a substitute, we can have a single store expression
  that builds a generic program that is invoked to build the desired
  store path, which is passed as an argument.

  This means that operations like `nix-pull' only produce O(1) files
  instead of O(N) files in the store when registering N substitutes.
  (It consumes O(N) database storage, of course, but that's not a
  performance problem).

* Added a test for the substitute mechanism.
  
* `nix-store --substitute' reads the substitutes from standard input,
  instead of from the command line.  This prevents us from running
  into the kernel's limit on command line length.
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Eelco Dolstra 2004-06-20 19:17:54 +00:00
parent bafb2357d1
commit 112ee89501
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using namespace std;
/* A substitute is a program invocation that constructs some store
path (typically by fetching it from somewhere, e.g., from the
network). */
struct Substitute
{
/* Store expression to be normalised and realised in order to
obtain `program'. */
Path storeExpr;
/* Program to be executed to create the store path. Must be in
the output path of `storeExpr'. */
Path program;
/* Extra arguments to be passed to the program (the first argument
is the store path to be substituted). */
Strings args;
bool operator == (const Substitute & sub);
};
typedef list<Substitute> Substitutes;
/* Open the database environment. */
void openDB();
@ -40,10 +63,11 @@ bool querySuccessor(const Path & srcPath, Path & sucPath);
Paths queryPredecessors(const Path & sucPath);
/* Register a substitute. */
void registerSubstitute(const Path & srcPath, const Path & subPath);
void registerSubstitute(const Path & srcPath,
const Substitute & sub);
/* Return the substitutes expression for the given path. */
Paths querySubstitutes(const Path & srcPath);
Substitutes querySubstitutes(const Path & srcPath);
/* Register the validity of a path. */
void registerValidPath(const Transaction & txn, const Path & path);