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* Basic work on allowing derive expressions to build multiple paths.
This is not entirely trivial since this introduces the possibility of mutual recursion. * Made normal forms self-contained. * Use unique ids, not content hashes, for content referencing.
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/* Database names. */
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/* dbHash2Paths :: Hash -> [Path]
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/* dbPath2Id :: Path -> FSId
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Maintains a mapping from hashes to lists of paths. This is what we
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use to resolve Hash(hash) content descriptors. */
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extern string dbHash2Paths;
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Each pair (p, id) records that path $p$ contains an expansion of
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$id$. */
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extern string dbPath2Id;
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/* dbSuccessors :: Hash -> Hash
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Each pair (h1, h2) in this mapping records the fact that a
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successor of an fstate expression with hash h1 is stored in a file
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with hash h2.
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/* dbId2Paths :: FSId -> [Path]
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A mapping from ids to lists of paths. */
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extern string dbId2Paths;
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/* dbSuccessors :: FSId -> FSId
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Each pair $(id_1, id_2)$ in this mapping records the fact that a
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successor of an fstate expression stored in a file with identifier
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$id_1$ is stored in a file with identifier $id_2$.
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Note that a term $y$ is successor of $x$ iff there exists a
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sequence of rewrite steps that rewrites $x$ into $y$.
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Also note that instead of a successor, $y$ can be any term
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equivalent to $x$, that is, reducing to the same result, as long as
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$x$ is equal to or a successor of $y$. (This is useful, e.g., for
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shared derivate caching over the network).
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*/
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extern string dbSuccessors;
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/* dbSubstitutes :: Hash -> [Hash]
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Each pair $(h, [hs])$ tells Nix that it can realise any of the
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fstate expressions referenced by the hashes in $hs$ to obtain a Nix
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archive that, when unpacked, will produce a path with hash $h$.
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/* dbSubstitutes :: FSId -> [FSId]
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Each pair $(id, [ids])$ tells Nix that it can realise any of the
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fstate expressions referenced by the identifiers in $ids$ to
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generate a path with identifier $id$.
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The main purpose of this is for distributed caching of derivates.
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One system can compute a derivate with hash $h$ and put it on a
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