A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
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A corrupt entry in .links prevents adding a fixed version of that file to the store in any path. The user experience is that corruption present in the store 'spreads' to new paths added to the store: (With store optimisation enabled) 1. A file in the store gets corrupted somehow (eg: filesystem bug). 2. The user tries to add a thing to the store which contains a good copy of the corrupted file. 3. The file being added to the store is hashed, found to match the bad .links entry, and is replaced by a link to the bad .links entry. (The .links entry's hash is not verified during add -- this would impose a substantial performance burden.) 4. The user observes that the thing in the store that is supposed to be a copy of what they were trying to add is not a correct copy -- some files have different contents! Running "nix-store --verify --check-contents --repair" does not fix the problem. This change makes "nix-store --verify --check-contents --repair" fix this problem. Bad .links entries are simply removed, allowing future attempts to insert a good copy of the file to succeed. |
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| m4 | ||
| maintainers | ||
| misc | ||
| mk | ||
| perl | ||
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| src | ||
| tests | ||
| .dir-locals.el | ||
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| .version | ||
| bootstrap.sh | ||
| configure.ac | ||
| COPYING | ||
| local.mk | ||
| Makefile | ||
| Makefile.config.in | ||
| nix.spec.in | ||
| precompiled-headers.h | ||
| README.md | ||
| release-common.nix | ||
| release.nix | ||
| shell.nix | ||
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.