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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 55657ec81c..bf9dbaa726 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2274,11 +2274,14 @@ traverses @emph{all the files in the store}, this command can take a long time, especially on systems with a slow disk drive. @cindex repairing the store +@cindex corruption, recovering from Using @option{--verify=repair} or @option{--verify=contents,repair} causes the daemon to try to repair corrupt store items by fetching substitutes for them (@pxref{Substitutes}). Because repairing is not atomic, and thus potentially dangerous, it is available only to the -system administrator. +system administrator. A lightweight alternative, when you know exactly +which items in the store are corrupt, is @command{guix build --repair} +(@pxref{Invoking guix build}). @item --optimize @cindex deduplication @@ -4859,6 +4862,14 @@ When used in conjunction with @option{--keep-failed}, the differing output is kept in the store, under @file{/gnu/store/@dots{}-check}. This makes it easy to look for differences between the two results. +@item --repair +@cindex repairing store items +@cindex corruption, recovering from +Attempt to repair the specified store items, if they are corrupt, by +re-downloading or rebuilding them. + +This operation is not atomic and thus restricted to @code{root}. + @item --derivations @itemx -d Return the derivation paths, not the output paths, of the given |