From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Why is /gnu/store writable by the guixbuild group? Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:59:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20160122155914.GA7582@debian> References: <20160122144107.GA2185@stebalien.com> <20160122154517.GA7619@stebalien.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMe7O-00029s-Ir for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:59:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMe7L-0000kv-Cs for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:59:22 -0500 Received: from mailrelay2.public.one.com ([91.198.169.125]:60297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMe7L-0000kk-2D for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:59:19 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160122154517.GA7619@stebalien.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Steven Allen Cc: help-guix 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