GNU bug report logs - #15890
Please provide a way to delete old build directories.

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Package: guix;

Reported by: John Darrington <john <at> darrington.wattle.id.au>

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:16:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 15890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: 15890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15890: Please provide a way to delete old build directories.
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:44:42 +0100

Hi,

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> any news on this? Did anybody pass this to the Nix project?

No, but it shouldn’t be too hard: look for ‘settings.keepFailed’ in
libstore/build.cc and drop a chown -R in there.  We need to propagate
the UID of the client who connected to the daemon, though.

Ludo’.
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