From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: 15890@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15890: Please provide a way to delete old build directories.
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:58:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob4otlk4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131114081454.GA11819@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:14:54 +0100")
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
> When packages are built using guix build --keep-failed the build directories
> are created in /tmp/nix* (as they should be).
>
> But it is impossible to delete these directories without special priviliges.
> The user who called guix build --keep-failed cannot delete them because they
> are owned by guix-builder
>
> Can we please either:
>
> 1. Have a command (or option to guix gc) to remove them ; OR
>
> 2. Arrange for the ownership of such directories to be changed to the calling user,
> after the build has finished.
I agree. I would go for solution #2.
(Note that this will have to be submitted to the Nix project, since the
C++ code under nix/ is imported from there.)
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-14 8:14 bug#15890: Please provide a way to delete old build directories John Darrington
2013-12-10 21:58 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-11-07 8:56 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-11-09 14:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-25 10:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
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