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Re: ‘guix lint’ URL checks
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: ‘guix lint’ URL checks |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:28:03 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 01:12:09AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> > I wonder, are there any drawbacks of making the linter check that the
> > URL provides the data named by the hash?
>
> The rationale so far was that ‘guix lint foo’ should be fast (a couple
> of seconds at most), and ‘guix lint’ (all packages) should complete in
> less than a day. ;-)
Reasonable :)
> Thus, the ‘source’ and ‘home-page’ checks simply ensure that the URI
> points to something accessible instead of actually downloading the
> thing. This is fast and catches the most obvious errors, but has the
> drawback of not catching the right-URL-wrong-hash kind of errors.
I guess that `guix build --check --source foo` is the right way to check
for this mistake.