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[PATCH] lint: Split the derivation lint checker by system.

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From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>, 59078 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#59078] [PATCH] lint: Split the derivation lint checker by system.
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:48:19 +0100

Hi,

On mar., 15 nov. 2022 at 10:03, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 at 13:51, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> I meant that it’s important to have a single ‘derivation’ checker that
>> checks derivations for all the supported systems.  Packagers should be
>> able to run ‘guix lint -c derivation PKG’ and be confident that it’s
>> fine for all systems.
>
> The CLI invokation is unrelated to the invoked checkers, no?  As Chris
> is proposing, it seems being worth to group some checkers.  For
> instance, we already have the option ’-n, --no-network’ which does that
> but probably at the wrong level.
>
> Maybe we could have another command line option,
>
>     guix lint --group=no-network
>     guix lint --group=derivation
>     guix lint --group=no-network,derivation

What about this?


Cheers,
simon

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