Mykola Nikishov wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to build a package that fails. In the meantime, I'd like to > reclaim some disk space by collecting garbage. After that, all build > results for such package are gone and rebuilding it next time just > wastes bandwidth and CPU cycles by re-downloading and re-building the > same stuff: > > #+begin_example > guix build <PACKAGE> > guix gc > guix build <PACKAGE> > #+end_example > > Using --root=FILE with guix build does not help, I suppose it would help > only for successful build. > > How could I retain build results regardless if build was successful or > not?
I guess you meant 'dependencies' where you said 'results'. So maybe run: guix shell -D <package> -r <path> ...once to keep a profile with the dependencies registered as a root. --
