On April 26, 2017 4:53:33 AM PDT, Thomas Danckaert <p...@thomasdanckaert.be> wrote: [...] >The code scanning for reference is in nix/libstore/references.cc . >It looks for base32 hashes encoded as character strings in the >binaries. > >Could/should this be generalized somehow? Apart from compression, >store filenames encoded with 16-bit character encodings also cause >problems (can happen with Qt or WxWidgets). And the are probably >more cases where it fails. > >Does it make sense to expand the reference detecting code (perhaps >this would lead to too many different special cases?), or maybe >provide a mechanism to force references when the daemon cannot detect >them. I suppose you can always add a text file with a list of store >items to the output, but maybe there's a more elegant way? > >Thomas
The text file idea with the dependencies that Hartmut proposed seems an elegant solution; it would make the reference searching process cheaper and available for any kind of format.
