<flokli>
ok, right, the commit message states it clearly. still, people might be confused by just looking at the file
<arianvp>
I added a comment
<arianvp>
to the file
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<gchristensen>
aminechikhaoui, srhb, timokau[m], looks good from here
<aminechikhaoui>
I think Eelco fixed the issue already
<gchristensen>
great
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<catern>
would people be open to adding an optional argument to --dump-db to specify which store paths to dump info for?
<catern>
optional list of arguments, I suppose
<catern>
this would be useful for bootstrapping Nix in a relatively lightweight way
<catern>
(bootstrapping the Nix binaries onto a new host that previously didn't have Nix)
<catern>
all you *really* need to do is copy the Nix binaries closure over to the new host, run nix-store --init, and run nix-store --load-db <reginfo_for_that-closure
<catern>
it's just a bit of a hassle to generate reginfo_for_that_closure
<catern>
but, if dump-db took an argument, I could use dump-db to generate reginfo_for_that_closure
<catern>
i'm convinced this is right way so I'll do it and send a PR :)
<LnL>
isn't this already possible with exportReferencesGraph
<catern>
right, it is, but it's somewhat annoying to have to build a derivation, which runs a perl script, and use the resulting file output by the dervation, all that, just to do something that --dump-db already does
<LnL>
ah just on the cli, that would make sense as long as the export is relatively small
<LnL>
otherwise you'll probably run into argument limits
<catern>
right, it would probably just be for the closure of nix
<catern>
(note that we already have those argument limits problems for things like --export)
<LnL>
yeah, I figured
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<zimbatm>
domenkozar: voting to give alyssais merge access to nixpkgs as she is doing good work