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Valentin Gagarin 2af9fd20c6 clarify definition of "installable" 
the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in
a very long document lacking an overview section.
search did not help because it occurs so often.

- clarify wording in the definition
- add an overview of installable types
- add "installable" to glossary
- link to definition from occurrences of the term
- be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed
- installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation

Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-05 01:46:17 +01:00

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Examples

  • To get a NAR containing the GNU Hello package:

    # nix store dump-path nixpkgs#hello > hello.nar

  • To get a NAR from the binary cache https://cache.nixos.org/:

    # nix store dump-path --store https://cache.nixos.org/ \
    /nix/store/7crrmih8c52r8fbnqb933dxrsp44md93-glibc-2.25 > glibc.nar

Description

This command generates a NAR file containing the serialisation of the store path installable. The NAR is written to standard output.

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