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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-12-04 22:54:05 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-12-12 17:56:58 +0100
commit044277f610b02c3821afa0afdc2b2b140bb92cb4 (patch)
tree917c85294781ed74dbd9d895acb8889c06c4287f /doc
parent12c1afcdbdc984c760d00932bce64288b385bbc9 (diff)
guix archive: Add '--list'.
* guix/scripts/archive.scm (show-help, %options): Add '--list'. (list-contents): New procedure. (guix-archive): Honor the '--list' option. * tests/guix-archive.sh: Test it. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix archive): Document it.
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@@ -4598,6 +4598,18 @@ unsafe.
The primary purpose of this operation is to facilitate inspection of
archive contents coming from possibly untrusted substitute servers.
+@item --list
+@itemx -t
+Read a single-item archive as served by substitute servers
+(@pxref{Substitutes}) and print the list of files it contains, as in
+this example:
+
+@example
+$ wget -O - \
+ https://@value{SUBSTITUTE-SERVER}/nar/lzip/@dots{}-emacs-26.3 \
+ | lzip -d | guix archive -t
+@end example
+
@end table