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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why is /gnu/store writable by the guixbuild group?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:59:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160122155914.GA7582@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160122154517.GA7619@stebalien.com>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:45:17AM -0500, Steven Allen wrote:
> My only reservation with this is that directories in /gnu/store may or
> may not be "complete" (one could have half-completed builds).

I think that the atomic operation that validates a directory in /gnu/store
is registering it in the database. Before that, a build is not complete,
and also not used by the daemon (when creating profiles, deciding whether
a package still needs to be built, and so on).

Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-22 14:41 Why is /gnu/store writable by the guixbuild group? Steven Allen
2016-01-22 14:57 ` Thompson, David
2016-01-22 15:45   ` Steven Allen
2016-01-22 15:59     ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2016-01-22 17:02     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-22 23:17       ` Steven Allen
2016-01-23 20:56         ` Ludovic Courtès

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