the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in a very long document lacking an overview section. search did not help because it occurs so often. - clarify wording in the definition - add an overview of installable types - add "installable" to glossary - link to definition from occurrences of the term - be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed - installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
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Examples
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Verify the entire Nix store:
# nix store verify --all
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Check whether each path in the closure of Firefox has at least 2 signatures:
# nix store verify -r -n2 --no-contents $(type -p firefox)
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Verify a store path in the binary cache
https://cache.nixos.org/
:# nix store verify --store https://cache.nixos.org/ \ /nix/store/v5sv61sszx301i0x6xysaqzla09nksnd-hello-2.10
Description
This command verifies the integrity of the store paths installables,
or, if --all
is given, the entire Nix store. For each path, it
checks that
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its contents match the NAR hash recorded in the Nix database; and
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it is trusted, that is, it is signed by at least one trusted signing key, is content-addressed, or is built locally ("ultimately trusted").
Exit status
The exit status of this command is the sum of the following values:
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1 if any path is corrupted (i.e. its contents don't match the recorded NAR hash).
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2 if any path is untrusted.
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4 if any path couldn't be verified for any other reason (such as an I/O error).
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