Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr> writes: > Hello Roel, > > Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> skribis: > >> The patch adds a “disableGarbageCollection” boolean variable to the >> guix-daemon settings, and on each occasion where a store item may be >> deleted, it checks this option. >> >> This option can be set using “--disable-gc”. >> >> It would be great if someone could review this and discuss whether >> this is the right way to implement such a feature. And to point out >> what else would be needed to include this option in guix-daemon. > > I suppose the use case is when guix-daemon runs on a machine and is > accessed over TCP/IP (with GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=guix://…) from other > machines, right?
That's right. > In this case, I thought guix-daemon could explicitly check whether the > peer is remote, and disable GC in that case. That is, ‘guix gc’ would > still work locally on the machine that runs guix-daemon, but it would no > longer work remotely. > > How does that sound? That sounds like it solves our use-case, but only because in our case the access to the machine running guix-daemon is limited. So, even though I'm not sure how to implement this, your solution is fine with me. > > Thanks, > Ludo’. Thanks! Kind regards, Roel Janssen
