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Subject: bug#15890: Please provide a way to delete old build directories.
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:56:05 +0100
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To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> When packages are built using guix build --keep-failed the build director=
ies
> are created in /tmp/nix* (as they should be).
>
> But it is impossible to delete these directories without special privilig=
es.
> The user who called guix build --keep-failed cannot delete them because t=
hey
> are owned by guix-builder
>
> Can we please either:
>
> 1. Have a command (or option to guix gc) to remove them ; OR
>
> 2. Arrange for the ownership of such directories to be changed to the cal=
ling user,=20
>    after the build has finished.

This was fixed by Hartmut in commit
2608e40988ba8cf51723fe0d21bdedf6b3997c9c.

Ludo=E2=80=99.