John Darrington <[email protected]> skribis: > When packages are built using guix build --keep-failed the build directories > are created in /tmp/nix* (as they should be). > > But it is impossible to delete these directories without special priviliges. > The user who called guix build --keep-failed cannot delete them because they > are owned by guix-builder > > Can we please either: > > 1. Have a command (or option to guix gc) to remove them ; OR > > 2. Arrange for the ownership of such directories to be changed to the calling > user, > after the build has finished.
I agree. I would go for solution #2. (Note that this will have to be submitted to the Nix project, since the C++ code under nix/ is imported from there.) Ludo’.
