From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to remove old (test) builds from store?
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 23:06:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eg8f2td6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57503449.9050200@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Thu, 2 Jun 2016 15:27:37 +0200")
Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
> Am 02.06.2016 um 14:56 schrieb Thompson, David:
>> Then just run 'guix gc' and it will remove everything that isn't
>> currently included in a profile.
>
> This would remove much too much :-)
I usually run ‘guix gc -F 4G’ or similar, which removes just as much as
needed. That works rather well for me.
> I have quite some package to work on, including those with patches
> pending for inclusion. The dependencies of these packages are not in a
> profile (yet). Now when running `guix gc`, many packages need to be
> downloaded again a few minutes later.
They “need” to be downloaded again only if you want to rebuild them,
yet without adding them to a profile or making them a GC root. :-)
When needed, you can explicitly protect things from GC using profiles,
or using ‘guix build -r’.
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-02 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-02 10:14 How to remove old (test) builds from store? Hartmut Goebel
2016-06-02 11:10 ` 宋文武
2016-06-02 11:35 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-06-02 12:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-02 12:51 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-06-02 12:56 ` Thompson, David
2016-06-02 13:27 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-06-02 15:22 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-02 21:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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