On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:10:54 +0000
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:
> I haven't looked at this in detail, but one comment on the QA
> failures. Building the package for this large file involves copying it
> from the store, to another place in the store. This requires 2x the
> space which this large file takes up, which is a pretty wasteful
> approach.
Not only that but it also take a very long time to do that copy on
slower machines with an encrypted rootfs.

> This is the reason behind the build failures I've seen, the build
> machines run out of space when attempting the file copy. Maybe an
> alternative if you want to have a package would be to symlink to the
> source. That way, there's only a large file and a symlink in the
> store, rather than two copies of the same large file.
I'll try that. I hope that guix gc will not garbage collect the source
though.

Do you know if it's possible just to have a source package somehow
(and download the source to a specific filename) and not copy anything
at all?

Denis.