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| author | ryneeverett <ryneeverett@gmail.com> | 2021-01-16 19:11:10 +0000 |
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| committer | ryneeverett <ryneeverett@gmail.com> | 2021-01-16 19:11:10 +0000 |
| commit | 1e13c79a9165e99be9fccfec8e442d14bb66aef0 (patch) | |
| tree | e28cf95a063189501bdb056bbf73c46e023c16e2 | |
| parent | 00f99fdfe6ae9d16d938b4276323bbf28c5872ce (diff) | |
Document expected output of 'nix store ping'.
While interpreting the output is fairly intuitive it would be better to
explicitly specify what a good invocation looks like.
That this isn't completely obvious (or at least causes folks to
second-guess themselves) can be seen in a couple user threads:
- https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-cache-fetching-issue/3575/11
- https://discourse.nixos.org/t/newbie-question-cant-get-trivial-example-of-nixops-to-work-on-my-mac/1125/8
| -rw-r--r-- | src/nix/ping-store.md | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/ping-store.md b/src/nix/ping-store.md index 322093091..79b108d9c 100644 --- a/src/nix/ping-store.md +++ b/src/nix/ping-store.md @@ -27,4 +27,6 @@ argument `--store` *url*) can be accessed. What this means is dependent on the type of the store. For instance, for an SSH store it means that Nix can connect to the specified machine. +When the command succeeds a zero exit code is returned with no output. + )"" |