>> Log:
>> Adding a possibility to add more paths to chroots used by nix-daemons. The
>> use-case is building the latest version from repository with very large
>> checkouts. That way you do not get extra copy in store every time you
>> rebuild, and you can implement a saner version checking than checksumming
>> all the data
>
>While I don't object to the option in principle, I think this use case
>is misguided. If you want to make a copy of something in /var/dist
>without having it copied to the store, just do
>
> fetchurl {
> url = file:///var/dist/...;
> sha256 = "...";
> }
I have an entire directory, and it is updated fequently, so if you
modified the option to a form you can tolerate, I will keep using it.
Thanks for the advice (both this one and in IRC).
>For quick and dirty hacking, you can also set this derivation attribute:
>
> __noChroot = true;
I wanted something less dirty, if possible
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