[Nix-dev] Re: nix-store --gc doesn't honor gc-keep-outputs

[Peter Simons]

Hi,

I'm wondering what to do about this bug:

 > Hi Eelco,
 >
 >  > I can't reproduce this: [...]
 >
 > I can reproduce that error on three different platforms using 0.14pre19016. No
 > matter whether it's Linux/x86, Linux/x86_64, or Darwin/x86, nix-collect-garbage
 > expires all source code tarballs regardless of the "gc-keep-outputs = true"
 > setting in ~/.nix-profile/etc/nix/nix.conf. I even tried it again after
 > re-building the entire Nix installation from scratch, but that made no
 > difference:
 >
 >   peter at binx:~/.nix-defexpr$ nix-build -A aterm25.src
 >   /home/peter/.nix/store/kylbqbscm6mn4jkrcbn65fbjpdr5d7g9-aterm-2.5.tar.gz
 >
 >   peter at binx:~/.nix-defexpr$ nix-build -A aterm25
 >   the following derivations will be built:
 >     /home/peter/.nix/store/7x1wsx8pswprk6rb0v87cf9k4va9293j-aterm-2.5.drv
 >   building path(s) `/home/peter/.nix/store/4wkga4qcwxyp0gfiv8p1qpdszh2wxxb9-aterm-2.5'
 >   [...]
 >   scanning for references inside `/home/peter/.nix/store/4wkga4qcwxyp0gfiv8p1qpdszh2wxxb9-aterm-2.5'
 >   /home/peter/.nix/store/4wkga4qcwxyp0gfiv8p1qpdszh2wxxb9-aterm-2.5
 >
 >   peter at binx:~/.nix-defexpr$ nix-store --delete /home/peter/.nix/store/kylbqbscm6mn4jkrcbn65fbjpdr5d7g9-aterm-2.5.tar.gz --option gc-keep-outputs true
 >   finding garbage collector roots...
 >   removing stale link from `/home/peter/.nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto/xlllqwbrjr2bshjchadm51q082flzn5x' to `/a/roast/vol/vol0/home/peter/nix-pkgs/.nix-build-tmp-derivation'
 >   deleting `/home/peter/.nix/store/kylbqbscm6mn4jkrcbn65fbjpdr5d7g9-aterm-2.5.tar.gz'
 >   1 store paths deleted, 830158 bytes (0.79 MiB, 1632 blocks) freed

Does anyone have an idea?

Take care,
Peter