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Allow content-addressable paths to have references

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This adds a command 'nix make-content-addressable' that rewrites the
specified store paths into content-addressable paths. The advantage of
such paths is that 1) they can be imported without signatures; 2) they
can enable deduplication in cases where derivation changes do not
cause output changes (apart from store path hashes).

For example,

  $ nix make-content-addressable -r nixpkgs.cowsay
  rewrote '/nix/store/g1g31ah55xdia1jdqabv1imf6mcw0nb1-glibc-2.25-49' to '/nix/store/48jfj7bg78a8n4f2nhg269rgw1936vj4-glibc-2.25-49'
  ...
  rewrote '/nix/store/qbi6rzpk0bxjw8lw6azn2mc7ynnn455q-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16' to '/nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16'

We can then copy the resulting closure to another store without
signatures:

  $ nix copy --trusted-public-keys '' ---to ~/my-nix /nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16

In order to support self-references in content-addressable paths,
these paths are hashed "modulo" self-references, meaning that
self-references are zeroed out during hashing. Somewhat annoyingly,
this means that the NAR hash stored in the Nix database is no longer
necessarily equal to the output of "nix hash-path"; for
content-addressable paths, you need to pass the --modulo flag:

  $ nix path-info --json /nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16  | jq -r .[].narHash
  sha256:0ri611gdilz2c9rsibqhsipbfs9vwcqvs811a52i2bnkhv7w9mgw

  $ nix hash-path --type sha256 --base32 /nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16
  1ggznh07khq0hz6id09pqws3a8q9pn03ya3c03nwck1kwq8rclzs

  $ nix hash-path --type sha256 --base32 /nix/store/iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67-cowsay-3.03+dfsg1-16 --modulo iq6g2x4q62xp7y7493bibx0qn5w7xz67
  0ri611gdilz2c9rsibqhsipbfs9vwcqvs811a52i2bnkhv7w9mgw
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Eelco Dolstra 2018-03-30 00:56:13 +02:00
parent aabf5c86c9
commit 0abb3ad537
16 changed files with 289 additions and 65 deletions
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@ -256,23 +256,9 @@ Hash hashString(HashType ht, const string & s)
Hash hashFile(HashType ht, const Path & path)
{
Ctx ctx;
Hash hash(ht);
start(ht, ctx);
AutoCloseFD fd = open(path.c_str(), O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
if (!fd) throw SysError(format("opening file '%1%'") % path);
std::vector<unsigned char> buf(8192);
ssize_t n;
while ((n = read(fd.get(), buf.data(), buf.size()))) {
checkInterrupt();
if (n == -1) throw SysError(format("reading file '%1%'") % path);
update(ht, ctx, buf.data(), n);
}
finish(ht, ctx, hash.hash);
return hash;
HashSink sink(ht);
readFile(path, sink);
return sink.finish().first;
}