From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
To: 38469@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38469: guix gc should keep around recent intermediate build ingredients by default
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:59:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0d5a7kl.fsf@yamatai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484751C5-E7B0-40AA-B0BD-E81D31C0535C@vllmrt.net>
Robert Vollmert skribis:
> [ This is a user/developer friendliness feature request. I’m not arguing
> that `guix gc` should do anything differently on a technical level, I’m
> just trying to argue that the default experience should be different. ]
>
> Current situation:
> I use a forked guix repository as my default channel, which
> includes a number of slow-to-build Haskell packages. Now and
> then, I run out of disk space. So I call `guix gc`, which invariably
> removes the store paths involved in building my current system generation,
> so the next call to `guix system reconfigure` takes hours.
>
> Desired situation:
> After calling `guix gc`, the paths that were involved in my last system
> build are still around, so reconfiguring doesn’t result in everything
> being rebuilt.
>
> (If there’s some way I can achieve that now, perhaps by explicitly managing
> some roots, or passing specific arguments to `guix gc`, I’d be happy to
> know! I’d still argue that we should try to make this the default behaviour,
> though.)
Have you tried passing the options '--gc-keep-derivations=yes' and
'--gc-keep-outputs=yes' to guix-daemon?
In the operating-system definition, it would be something like:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(services
(cons* (service ...)
[...]
(modify-services %desktop-services
(guix-service-type config =>
(guix-configuration
(inherit config)
(extra-options '("--gc-keep-derivations=yes"
"--gc-keep-outputs=yes")))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-03 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-03 10:48 bug#38469: guix gc should keep around recent intermediate build ingredients by default Robert Vollmert
2019-12-03 12:59 ` Guillaume Le Vaillant [this message]
2019-12-03 14:29 ` bug#38469: guix gc should keep around recent intermediate build Robert Vollmert
2019-12-10 16:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
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