Re: Fwd: warning: collision encountered

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:22:44PM -0800, carl hansen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:46 PM, carl hansen <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 05:24:36PM -0800, carl hansen wrote:

[...]

> I do:
> # ls -1 /gnu/store  |sort -k 1.34 >/tmp/a
> in /tmp/a I see many , what look like duplicates, module the base32 string

You would not actually install all these differing builds of the same
version of acl into your profile.

> in the front,
> for example
>    38 63zwd686rpjifkv37abmd723asjzskva-acl-2.2.52/
>    39 csrip06lky3f2abgyvzc2bki9pgnz4ib-acl-2.2.52/
>    40 rjcxalra8f54qk7h32zw8irx4fi9x649-acl-2.2.52/
>    41 y1kvygp3yaj1p0ar134rxl8y6dn3vc93-acl-2.2.52/
>    42 72ax524fif2yii3bqwa3rjnh450cj3vc-acl-2.2.52.drv
>    43 bzhcnfwikxh9rm52cq8cphzk77k9sfxv-acl-2.2.52.drv
>    44 fihsyanl3a8bwpxlyx25dgi0z1zmqcp4-acl-2.2.52.drv
>    45 kvrwv1bndn4935k21qimvanqc9dwlljj-acl-2.2.52.drv
>    46 sy6b7h80z1vm9dc0xixbli9n9500q5c6-acl-2.2.52.drv
>    47 x03zv2wxk9xvw27pg5vvy6lbfavy3nix-acl-2.2.52.drv
>    48 y8ql9x2sck3jr26jf5l9ky9lz7ci0aaq-acl-2.2.52.drv
>    49 1jwh0x0mvvjmq9gjn9lxnw6szvpb5bwi-acl-2.2.52-guile-builder
>    50 daridrmp97fnim0pddp51lhqn1c1nwv0-acl-2.2.52-guile-builder
>    51 hbi7spdvfs177c3jzv3zn85j5wgp7hrv-acl-2.2.52-guile-builder
>    52 lj4bmca87irvdsvrngsgah96yby3rzpx-acl-2.2.52-guile-builder
>    53 w51ji955hc155h5lcmvcmpq33fr407vq-acl-2.2.52-guile-builder
>    54 xzzl47vl72630q2idvcy24jm4ln47xkh-acl-2.2.52-guile-builder
>    55 2x3b0w1cx9128p564s5iryp76yy4l8w0-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.gz
>    56 40652r2q5pp3dsagmgvrsdxqvwhlsgh0-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.gz.drv
>    57 44j13yy6i77ds4h892hpjwqw37lilzpd-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.gz.drv
>    58 gp8n2wncrh28z6ci2d19ygajsjr6r8j2-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.gz.drv
>    59 l9r8zfdrr3zj9sab718rvka1526iqqam-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.gz.drv
>    60 ls6l9hw5mni4gnvv3ah3rw0w8vsb9bcm-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.gz.drv
>    61 pdfkasamwqgfb3a3q4fl76n3063bg4xl-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.gz.drv
>    62 rpsy437kb159jah8jc28maqdlc0bl6dg-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.gz.drv
>     63 wy8x3rv7813y0m066j8hgdjnglhhgndz-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz
>    64 2ni0661zabg5smck6waw7klhgn2ap148-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz-builder
>    65 afpdjihigsq17jmfbpl1bp0dmjmzxxs3-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz-builder
>    66 g138q6khixv4bncbarq5iqkmwgmz2kzm-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz-builder
>    67 qw0d8nijs4a6ws3lnsp05jj8r0l8jj7x-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz-builder
>    68 s87d78mkxcifsmzyazrjsgk08madmxmg-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz-builder
>    69 ygb39n10b8igrna3cpb3jq4c6pfvgxr4-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz-builder
>    70 9xpib4851r6fzcbpqkx2kzkpss41n396-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz.drv
>    71 fzfz725bc0w09ywkzy2pmgds3gddq2qh-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz.drv
>    72 ldqb22pvg98qviicnv6j1ngl5d0xp990-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz.drv
>    73 myw3bnfnr8yincq0fpqjaa3pqmn765bx-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz.drv
>    74 qnq01qbjdjvxp72iw9hjv1wch5i06rni-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz.drv
>    75 x79i0cjjzn2pjrnfs1v12cal4habdbdx-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz.drv
>    76 xz4pv2gwg56xnb97bv8scwcqi36l3by2-acl-2.2.52.src.tar.xz.drv
>    77 x90p71bkxmlr66fwhrp2vzlhc2p4adjl-acl-hurd-path-max.patch
> 
> Shirlie, that can't be right?
> BTW
> ls -1 /gnu/store|wc
>  14580   14580  849158
> does that seem reasonable?

Yes, the store contains a large number of files.