From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix-gc
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:40:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hampi53a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301101104.22164.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:04:21 +0100")
Hi!
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> When running "guix-gc" without specifying any root, the complete content of
> /nix/store was classified as dead. This looks a bit excessive to me; should
> not at least the gnu build system that would be used to build a package
> with the currently installed guix be preserved? Even if the user has not
> installed gcc in his environement, for instance, the "current" gcc should
> be kept, whereas any older gcc (I had quite a few of them corresponding to
> several versions of guix) should be deleted.
Well, anything that’s not reachable from a GC root is deleted.
Nix provides other options that extend this model to something closer to
what you say, namely ‘gc-keep-outputs’ (see
<http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3676991/download/1/nix/manual.html>.)
I guess we should add a guix-daemon option for that.
> If I see it correctly, this means that the output of
> guix-build hello --dry-run
> should be kept in the store.
Currently it’s not the case, unless you use:
guix-build --root=my-hello hello
and the keep the ‘my-hello’ symlink around.
> I also got the following error on the first run:
>
> deleting `/nix/store/j29s9129di8lzx7xbc9rj0ywx05pivij-readline-6.2'
> error: build failed: getting status of
> `/nix/store/j29s9129di8lzx7xbc9rj0ywx05pivij-readline-6.2': No such file or
> directory
>
> But the next run worked and deleted everything.
Hmm, weird. If that happens again, perhaps you should try to see where
that directory is, by looking at /nix/store and at --list-dead and
--list-live, for instance.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-10 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-05 23:57 guix-gc Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-10 10:04 ` guix-gc Andreas Enge
2013-01-10 12:40 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-01-19 13:00 ` guix-gc Andreas Enge
2013-01-22 21:56 ` guix-gc Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-26 13:58 ` guix-gc Andreas Enge
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