Hi, On 03/06/15 10:27, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> The patch below adds a ‘verifyStore’ RPC with the same signature as the >>> current LocalStore::verifyStore method. >> >> Thanks! I've applied this with the following change to disallow repairing by >> unprivileged users (since it's a potentially dangerous operation): >> >> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/d8ddf994e70f97994e0f1fbd382df93cd071b90f > > Sounds good, although I’m unclear on how things could go wrong: > repairing can only rebuild or use approved substitutes, right? Repair may replace store paths non-atomically, which, if interrupted, can leave the system in a broken state. (E.g. if you try to replace glibc and it fails half-way through.) -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
