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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Fulbert <fulbert@bluewin.ch>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cleaning interrupted build "leftovers" ?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:58:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuwnnijk.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200828103411.GA8514@bluewin.ch>


Fulbert <fulbert@bluewin.ch> writes:

>   Yesterday, I interrupted (CTRL+C) the installation of
> linux-libre@5.8.5 when it was in build phase (substitute not
> available yet). Today, a new `guix system reconfigure` has
> found a substitute. I am wondering if, in this situation, my system
> has "leftovers" from the aborted build, that I would need to
> clean… and if so, {where,how} to find it ?!

No, there are no left-overs when aborting a build.
There may be build pre-requisites that are no longer needed, though,
which can be collected by the garbage collector (“guix gc”).

-- 
Ricardo


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-28 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-28 10:34 cleaning interrupted build "leftovers" ? Fulbert
2020-08-28 10:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2020-08-28 11:03 ` Andreas Enge
2020-08-28 11:11 ` Fulbert

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