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Eelco Dolstra 112ee89501 * 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.
2004-06-20 19:17:54 +00:00
corepkgs * Dist error. 2004-04-21 14:57:46 +00:00
distributed * A Nix mode for Emacs. 2004-06-04 14:31:57 +00:00
doc * Only add `-preRELEASE' to the version if STABLE != 1. 2004-04-26 09:52:06 +00:00
externals * Don't build ATerm library if we don't need to. 2004-02-16 16:48:06 +00:00
misc * README for the Emacs mode (written a while ago, but forgot to commit). 2004-06-20 19:08:59 +00:00
scripts * Look for GC roots in @localstatedir@/nix/gcroots. 2004-04-22 14:17:57 +00:00
src * Re-enable support for substitutes in the normaliser. 2004-06-20 19:17:54 +00:00
testpkgs * Argument support in Fix. Arguments can be passed through the 2003-08-15 13:01:45 +00:00
tests * Re-enable support for substitutes in the normaliser. 2004-06-20 19:17:54 +00:00
AUTHORS * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
ChangeLog * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
configure.ac * A Nix mode for Emacs. 2004-06-04 14:31:57 +00:00
COPYING * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
INSTALL * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
Makefile.am * A Nix mode for Emacs. 2004-06-04 14:31:57 +00:00
NEWS * Autoconf / Automake configuration and building. 2003-04-04 16:14:56 +00:00
nix.spec.in * Allow the location of the store etc. to be specified using 2004-05-04 12:15:30 +00:00
README * Fixed URL. 2004-04-26 09:54:37 +00:00
substitute.mk * A test to verify that Nix executes build jobs in parallel, if 2004-05-04 17:04:17 +00:00

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