From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 33124-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33124: Cuirass: register GC roots for evaluations under /var/guix/gcroots
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:24:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7mkr8r4.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9b1ufjh.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Clément,
>
> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:
>
>> I think the goal here is to make sure that the builds that resulted from
>> of 1) important evaluations (releases) and 2) recent evaluations aren't
>> garbage collected.
>>
>> <sneek> snape, civodul says: i think Cuirass should register GC roots for its
>> evaluations under /var/guix/gcroots
>> <snape> [...] How many such evaluations should be registered? If all
>> are registered, we'll run out of space won't we? So would it be
>> like the last 15 or something?
>> <civodul> snape: i think we'd register all of them and use (guix cache) to
>> automatically wipe old ones periodically [09:53]
>> <civodul> snape: when there's a release we could manually stash important
>> evaluations away so they won't be deleted
>> <civodul> so i'd just create one subdir for each eval say in
>> /var/guix/profiles/USER/cuirass/evaluations [09:54]
>> <civodul> and that'd contain a bunch of symlinks to both the .drv and the
>> outputs
>
> I went ahead and implemented a simple version of this in commit
> d4623d50edac4a6e81f5986a91c2818f5fc4965d.
>
> Let me know what you think!
This is great. Thank you very much!
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-23 9:27 bug#33124: Cuirass: register GC roots for evaluations under /var/guix/gcroots Clément Lassieur
2018-11-07 14:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-07 19:24 ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
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