[Nix-dev] garbage collecting source (was: btrfs-progs (was: contributing to nixpkgs/nixos))

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:29:39 +0400, Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> wrote:
> >Does hydra keep mirrored copies of sources around for every binary it serves?
> >And I guess it won't build the same package every night if no inputs
> >change, so if sources become unavailable, won't maintainers notice?
> 
> Hydra keeps sources for some time, but they are not GC-pinned.

How difficult would it be to have a flag to keep garbage collection from
removing sources?

I like to garbage collect, but I don't like lacking sources of installed
things when being offline.

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