Registering an artifact as root

Registering an artifact as root

[Hartmut Goebel]

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Re: Registering an artifact as root

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Sonntag, dem 23.07.2023 um 12:51 +0200 schrieb Hartmut Goebel:
> Hi,
> I'd like to create a symlink to a store object somewhere in my home-
> directory and register this symlink as a root, to avoid the garbage
> collector removes the store object.
> How can I achieve this with existing guix means?
(guix store) has

(define-operation (add-indirect-root (string file-name))
  "Make the symlink FILE-NAME an indirect root for the garbage collector:
whatever store item FILE-NAME points to will not be collected.  Return #t on
success.

FILE-NAME can be anywhere on the file system, but it must be an absolute file
name--it is the caller's responsibility to ensure that it is an absolute file
name."
  boolean)

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Re: Registering an artifact as root

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 23.07.23 um 14:38 schrieb Liliana Marie Prikler:
> Hope that helps. 

Thanks, I was able to make this work:

guile -L .. -c '(use-modules (guix store)) (add-indirect-root 
(open-connection) "/abs/path/to/my/artifact")'

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Hartmut Goebel

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