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* Generate the scripts so that we can substitute the prefix

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etc. correctly.
* Fixed nix-switch.
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Eelco Dolstra 2003-07-13 18:58:03 +00:00
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#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $keep = 0;
if (scalar @ARGV > 0 && $ARGV[0] eq "--keep") {
shift @ARGV;
$keep = 1;
}
my $hash = $ARGV[0];
$hash || die "no package hash specified";
my $prefix = $ENV{"NIX"} || "/nix"; # !!! use prefix
my $linkdir = "$prefix/var/nix/links";
# Build the specified package, and all its dependencies.
my $pkgdir = `nix getpkg $hash`;
if ($?) { die "`nix getpkg' failed"; }
chomp $pkgdir;
my $id = `nix info $hash | cut -c 34-`;
if ($?) { die "`nix info' failed"; }
chomp $id;
# Figure out a generation number.
my $nr = 0;
while (-e "$linkdir/$id-$nr") { $nr++; }
my $link = "$linkdir/$id-$nr";
# Create a symlink from $link to $pkgdir.
symlink($pkgdir, $link) or die "cannot create $link: $!";
# Also store the hash of $pkgdir. This is useful for garbage
# collection and the like.
my $hashfile = "$linkdir/$id-$nr.hash";
open HASH, "> $hashfile" or die "cannot create $hashfile";
print HASH "$hash\n";
close HASH;
my $current = "$linkdir/current";
# Read the current generation so that we can delete it (if --keep
# wasn't specified).
my $oldlink = readlink($current);
# Make $link the current generation by pointing $linkdir/current to
# it. The rename() system call is supposed to be essentially atomic
# on Unix. That is, if we have links `current -> X' and `new_current
# -> Y', and we rename new_current to current, a process accessing
# current will see X or Y, but never a file-not-found or other error
# condition. This is sufficient to atomically switch the current link
# tree.
print "switching $current to $link\n";
my $tmplink = "$linkdir/new_current";
symlink($link, $tmplink) or die "cannot create $tmplink";
rename($tmplink, $current) or die "cannot rename $tmplink";
if (!$keep && defined $oldlink) {
print "deleting old $oldlink\n";
unlink($oldlink) == 1 || print "cannot delete $oldlink\n";
unlink("$oldlink.hash") == 1 || print "cannot delete $oldlink.hash\n";
}