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Eelco Dolstra fe1f34fa60 Low-latency closure copy
This adds a new store operation 'addMultipleToStore' that reads a
number of NARs and ValidPathInfos from a Source, allowing any number
of store paths to be copied in a single call. This is much faster on
high-latency links when copying a lot of small files, like .drv
closures.

For example, on a connection with an 50 ms delay:

Before:

  $ nix copy --to 'unix:///tmp/proxy-socket?root=/tmp/dest-chroot' \
    /nix/store/90jjw94xiyg5drj70whm9yll6xjj0ca9-hello-2.10.drv \
    --derivation --no-check-sigs
  real    0m57.868s
  user    0m0.103s
  sys     0m0.056s

After:

  real    0m0.690s
  user    0m0.017s
  sys     0m0.011s
2021-07-26 13:31:09 +02:00
.github github actions: simplify getting the system logic 2021-06-28 23:02:53 +02:00
config Run autoupdate 2021-06-01 11:42:38 +02:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc/manual Cleanup the generation of the nix3 manpages 2021-07-19 16:55:56 +02:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers upload-release.pl: add aarch64-darwin 2021-07-02 14:12:00 +02:00
misc Merge pull request #4935 from alyssais/host_os 2021-07-08 12:40:54 +02:00
mk Apply OS checks to host platform, not build 2021-06-23 15:00:36 +00:00
nix-rust Apply OS checks to host platform, not build 2021-06-23 15:00:36 +00:00
perl Fix perl bindings build 2021-07-15 13:51:12 +02:00
scripts Fix wrong hash var for aarch64-darwin binary 2021-07-05 07:48:53 -07:00
src Low-latency closure copy 2021-07-26 13:31:09 +02:00
tests Merge branch 'balsoft/no-registries' of https://github.com/serokell/nix 2021-07-21 10:11:40 +02:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Cleanup the generation of the nix3 manpages 2021-07-19 16:55:56 +02:00
.version Revert "Bump version to 3.0" 2020-10-26 11:30:18 +01:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff boehmgc: Remove unused code from patch 2021-06-25 17:45:48 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into cross-jobs 2021-06-25 15:51:02 -05:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
flake.lock flake.lock: Update 2021-06-28 18:42:44 +02:00
flake.nix nlohmann_json: Update to 3.9.1, fix use of internal copy 2021-07-15 12:25:53 +02:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile nlohmann_json: Update to 3.9.1, fix use of internal copy 2021-07-15 12:25:53 +02:00
Makefile.config.in Apply OS checks to host platform, not build 2021-06-23 15:00:36 +00:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md throw freenode down the memory hole 2021-05-27 21:48:39 +02:00
shell.nix Add back flake-compat shell.nix 2020-07-17 14:58:59 +00:00

Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.