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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-03-10T16·20+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-03-10T16·20+0000
commit37d1b1cafd17a18dc7dbef3b4ba7fb204158d58b (patch)
tree65ac3fdf078404a0957c5df5af855849e03be20f /tests/user-envs.sh
parenta33fb2d28738376d377ea8473f6cffc39bc784c4 (diff)
* `nix-env -qa --description' shows human-readable descriptions of
  packages (provided that they have a `meta.description' attribute).
  E.g.,

  $ ./src/nix-env/nix-env -qa --description gcc
  gcc-4.0.2   GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for sparc-linux)
  gcc-4.0.2   GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for mips-linux)
  gcc-4.0.2   GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for arm-linux)
  gcc-4.0.2   GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x


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diff --git a/tests/user-envs.sh b/tests/user-envs.sh
index b8df8c37355c..b1ba0ccc164d 100644
--- a/tests/user-envs.sh
+++ b/tests/user-envs.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 source common.sh
 
 profiles="$NIX_STATE_DIR"/profiles
+rm -f $profiles/*
 
 # Query installed: should be empty.
 test "$($nixenv -p $profiles/test -q '*' | wc -l)" -eq 0
@@ -8,6 +9,9 @@ test "$($nixenv -p $profiles/test -q '*' | wc -l)" -eq 0
 # Query available: should contain several.
 test "$($nixenv -p $profiles/test -f ./user-envs.nix -qa '*' | wc -l)" -eq 5
 
+# Query descriptions.
+$nixenv -p $profiles/test -f ./user-envs.nix -qa '*' --description | grep silly
+
 # Install "foo-1.0".
 $nixenv -p $profiles/test -f ./user-envs.nix -i foo-1.0