[Nix-dev] nix-store --verify strange hashes

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 12/02/2011 01:47 PM, Rickard Nilsson wrote:

> On my newly installed Sheevaplug NixOS system, I ran "nix-store --verify  
> --check-contents". I then got a lot of output like this:
> 
> path `/nix/store/yn52bgxj6afy99qjgf2ja57ajz5gx0j4-nixos-deploy-network'  
> was modified! expected hash  
> `0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000', got  
> `b1f8a22f80e4e6c812db42faeb68368e0d2676b63f5ab9f789796ed88088cf01'

In some cases (not exactly sure when) the hash of a path isn't known, so the
database contains a 0 for that path.  "nix-store --verify" should handle that
case though.

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/