Support relocated store; lightweight store module #82
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Support relocated store when configured with the
NIX_STORE_DIR
andNIX_REMOTE
environment variables.This allows
nix-diff
to be used in the sandbox with instantiations in a store whose physical location is in the build directory rather than the logicalstoreDir
(/nix/store
).This is achieved by changing introducing a
newtype StorePath
to help distinguish paths that may be logical paths rather than physical ones.It is not a true abstraction in the sense that Nix's own store concept is, but that's ok. It makes this use case work, while still only relying on the ambient environment, requiring no types and variables for the store itself.
I plan to use this functionality for error reporting in evaluation tests that evaluate Nixpkgs for the purpose of testing Nix itself, in the context of Nixpkgs "passthru" tests and Nix's own CI setup.