Hi, On 02/07/12 10:09, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> can somebody explain me what is going on here? Summary: > > - garbage collect as user > - rerun garbage collect as user -> nothing to do > - sudo garbage collect -> more work to do including scary > 'invalidating' actions > > Why is root garbage collecting more than user? Because you're using sudo and sudo doesn't propagate the $NIX_CONF_DIR environment variable. Because of this the Nix configuration file in /etc/nix/nix.conf won't be used. By default it contains a line "gc-keep-outputs = true" which prevents the outputs of derivations from being garbage collected. This explains that "sudo nix-collect-garbage" will suddenly garbage-collect tarballs like "xmonad-0.10.tar.gz". Maybe we should add an "env_keep" line for $NIX_CONF_DIR to sudoers. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
