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* Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database.

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Eelco Dolstra 2006-11-30 11:24:10 +00:00
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@ -15,18 +15,6 @@ generation 43 is created which is a descendant of 39, not 42. So a
rollback from 43 ought to go back to 39. This is not currently
implemented; generations form a linear sequence.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Build management.</emphasis> In principle it
is already possible to do build management using Nix (by writing
builders that perform appropriate build steps), but the Nix expression
language is not yet powerful enough to make this pleasant (?). The
language should be extended with features from the <link
xlink:href='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/maak/'>Maak build
manager</link>. Another interesting idea is to write a
<command>make</command> implementation that uses Nix as a back-end to
support <link
xlink:href='http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#legacy'>legacy</link>
build files.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>For security, <command>nix-push</command> manifests
should be digitally signed, and <command>nix-pull</command> should
verify the signatures. The actual NAR archives in the cache do not