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Ahh, I see. But couldn‘t the hash then also be used on the packages themselves?
by slapslash 5y ago
Ahh, I see. But couldn‘t the hash then also be used on the packages themselves?
- rgoulter 5y agoThe package in the cache which it's downloaded from? I think so. It would be a bit more involved that "replace the package for gcc-11". The packages are addressed by the inputs which built them. There has been some effort towards supporting content-addressable storage. https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-09-10-nix-cas/ https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-09-10-nix-cas/ https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/secsharing-ase2005-final.pdf https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/secsharing-ase2005-final.pdf