From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
To: Mykola Nikishov <mn@mn.com.ua>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to prevent incomplete build results from being garbage collected?
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 13:32:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilr9sbfu.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tub11jdt.fsf@think> (Mykola Nikishov's message of "Sun, 10 Apr 2022 10:34:54 +0300")
Mykola Nikishov wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to build a package that fails. In the meantime, I'd like to
> reclaim some disk space by collecting garbage. After that, all build
> results for such package are gone and rebuilding it next time just
> wastes bandwidth and CPU cycles by re-downloading and re-building the
> same stuff:
>
> #+begin_example
> guix build <PACKAGE>
> guix gc
> guix build <PACKAGE>
> #+end_example
>
> Using --root=FILE with guix build does not help, I suppose it would help
> only for successful build.
>
> How could I retain build results regardless if build was successful or
> not?
I guess you meant 'dependencies' where you said 'results'. So maybe run:
guix shell -D <package> -r <path>
...once to keep a profile with the dependencies registered as a root.
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2022-04-10 7:34 How to prevent incomplete build results from being garbage collected? Mykola Nikishov
2022-04-16 8:02 ` James Thomas [this message]
2022-04-28 9:05 ` zimoun
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