Re: “guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi! >> >> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> >>> There are two problems here: >>> >>> 1) I don’t think “guix gc --list-dead” (or “--list-live”, or more >>> generally “findRoots” in nix/libstore/gc.cc) should delete >>> anything. It should jus

Re: “guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

Ludovic Courtès writes: Hi! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: There are two problems here: 1) I don’t think “guix gc --list-dead” (or “--list-live”, or more generally “findRoots” in nix/libstore/gc.cc) should delete anything. It should just list and not clean up. Maybe ‘findRoots’ could popul

Re: “guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

Hi! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > There are two problems here: > > 1) I don’t think “guix gc --list-dead” (or “--list-live”, or more > generally “findRoots” in nix/libstore/gc.cc) should delete > anything. It should just list and not clean up. Maybe ‘findRoots’ could populate the list of stale ro

Re: “guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> Would it be possible to add an option to retrospectively apply this >> transformation? Maybe that could work somewhat like this: >> >> $ ls -lha >> ... /home/me/projects/mrg1_chipseq/.guix-profile-1-link -> >> /gnu/store/ap0vrfxjdj57iqdapg8q83l4f7aylqzm-profile

Re: “guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

Hi Roel, Maybe I'm making things needlessly complex, but I would really like a solution that can be applied to an existing cluster setup. :) Oh, I’d also like something automated that works for an existing cluster setup (like mine that prompted this conversation), but in my imagination th

Re: “guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

On Mon, 2021-05-10 at 13:59 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi Roel, > > thanks for your feedback! > > > Would it be possible to add an option to retrospectively apply > > this > > transformation?  Maybe that could work somewhat like this: > > > > $ ls -lha > > ... /home/me/projects/mrg1_chip

Re: “guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

Hi Ricardo, all, On 10 May 2021 at 18:59, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: On my cluster installation I ran “guix gc --list-dead” out of curiosity. When finding roots, the daemon also removes what it considers stale links. On my cluster installation not all links always resolve, because the target

Re: “guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

Hi Roel, thanks for your feedback! Would it be possible to add an option to retrospectively apply this transformation? Maybe that could work somewhat like this: $ ls -lha ... /home/me/projects/mrg1_chipseq/.guix-profile-1-link -> /gnu/store/ap0vrfxjdj57iqdapg8q83l4f7aylqzm-profile This w

Re: “guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

On Mon, 2021-05-10 at 11:59 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Guix, > > On my cluster installation I ran “guix gc --list-dead” out of > curiosity.  When finding roots, the daemon also removes what it > considers stale links.  On my cluster installation not all links > always resolve, because th

“guix gc”, auto gcroots, cluster deployments

Hi Guix, On my cluster installation I ran “guix gc --list-dead” out of curiosity. When finding roots, the daemon also removes what it considers stale links. On my cluster installation not all links always resolve, because the target files reside on remote file systems. These remote locatio