[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r26174 - nixos/trunk/modules/services/misc
Eelco Dolstra
e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Mon Mar 7 09:14:39 CET 2011
Hi,
On 03/06/2011 04:39 PM, Michael Raskin wrote:
> Author: raskin
> Date: Sun Mar 6 15:39:05 2011
> New Revision: 26174
> URL: https://svn.nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=26174&sc=1
>
> Log:
> Adding a possibility to add more paths to chroots used by nix-daemons. The use-case is building the latest version from repository with very large checkouts. That way you do not get extra copy in store every time you rebuild, and you can implement a saner version checking than checksumming all the data
While I don't object to the option in principle, I think this use case
is misguided. If you want to make a copy of something in /var/dist
without having it copied to the store, just do
fetchurl {
url = file:///var/dist/...;
sha256 = "...";
}
For quick and dirty hacking, you can also set this derivation attribute:
__noChroot = true;
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