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Eelco Dolstra 9e975458b4 * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we
need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters
  (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly.  This means that
  it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for
  nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster
  (NIX-95).  Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull
  manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with
  each other.

  The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external
  program to get the substitutes info.  For instance, "nix-env -qas"
  takes a bit longer.

  Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in
  local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid
  paths.  On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR"
  on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway).

* Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-08-12 00:29:28 +00:00
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figures
bugs.xml
build-farm.xml
conf-file.xml
env-common.xml
glossary.xml
installation.xml 2007-05-16 22:07:39 +00:00
introduction.xml
Makefile.am
manual.xml 2007-05-16 22:07:39 +00:00
nix-build.xml * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl. 2007-02-05 12:10:10 +00:00
nix-channel.xml
nix-collect-garbage.xml
nix-env.xml * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl. 2007-02-05 12:10:10 +00:00
nix-hash.xml
nix-install-package.xml
nix-instantiate.xml * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl. 2007-02-05 12:10:10 +00:00
nix-lang-ref.xml
nix-pack-closure.xml
nix-prefetch-url.xml change default NIX_HASH_ALGO 2007-06-02 15:03:54 +00:00
nix-pull.xml
nix-push.xml
nix-store.xml * Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we 2007-08-12 00:29:28 +00:00
nix-unpack-closure.xml
opt-common-syn.xml * Compatibility with docbook5-xsl. 2007-02-05 12:10:10 +00:00
opt-common.xml
package-management.xml
quick-start.xml
quote-literals.xsl
release-notes.xml 2007-05-16 22:07:39 +00:00
schemas.xml
style.css
troubleshooting.xml * Override the setuid helper using NIX_SETUID_HELPER. 2007-03-20 22:04:25 +00:00
writing-nix-expressions.xml