Nix 2.28.2
Nix, the purely functional package manager; unstable internal interfaces
 
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help-stores

Nix supports different types of stores:

@store-types@

Store URL format

Stores are specified using a URL-like syntax. For example, the command

# nix path-info --store https://cache.nixos.org/ --json \
/nix/store/a7gvj343m05j2s32xcnwr35v31ynlypr-coreutils-9.1

fetches information about a store path in the HTTP binary cache located at https://cache.nixos.org/, which is a type of store.

Store URLs can specify store settings using URL query strings, i.e. by appending ?name1=value1&name2=value2&... to the URL. For instance,

--store ssh://machine.example.org?ssh-key=/path/to/my/key

tells Nix to access the store on a remote machine via the SSH protocol, using /path/to/my/key as the SSH private key. The supported settings for each store type are documented below.

The special store URL auto causes Nix to automatically select a store as follows:

  • Use the local store /nix/store if /nix/var/nix is writable by the current user.
  • Otherwise, if /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket exists, connect to the Nix daemon listening on that socket". * Otherwise, on Linux only, use the @ref "./local-store.md" "local chroot store" <tt>~/.local/share/nix/root</tt>, which will be created automatically if it does not exist. * Otherwise, use the @ref "./local-store.md" "local store" /nix/store.