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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-06-14 15:06:53 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-06-14 15:34:42 +0200
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lint: Add 'check-for-collisions' checker.
Suggested by Edouard Klein <edk@beaver-labs.com>. * guix/profiles.scm (check-for-collisions): Export. * guix/lint.scm (check-profile-collisions): New procedure. (%local-checkers): Add 'profile-collisions' checker. * tests/lint.scm ("profile-collisions: no warnings") ("profile-collisions: propagated inputs collide") ("profile-collisions: propagated inputs collide, store items"): New tests. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix lint): Document it.
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@@ -9957,6 +9957,13 @@ autogenerated tarballs are sometimes regenerated.
Check that the derivation of the given packages can be successfully
computed for all the supported systems (@pxref{Derivations}).
+@item profile-collisions
+Check whether installing the given packages in a profile would lead to
+collisions. Collisions occur when several packages with the same name
+but a different version or a different store file name are propagated.
+@xref{package Reference, @code{propagated-inputs}}, for more information
+on propagated inputs.
+
@item archival
@cindex Software Heritage, source code archive
@cindex archival of source code, Software Heritage