Steven Allen <ste...@stebalien.com> skribis: > Can anyone tell me what's going on here or point me to the relevant > documentation? Specifically, why does the daemon (assuming guix-daemon) > need to see what store items the package refers to?
At the end of a build, guix-daemon scans all the produced file in search of references to other store items. It then records those run-time references (so a subset of the build-time dependencies) in the /var/guix/db/db.sqlite database, which can be queried with ‘guix gc --references’. Scanning is also made from ‘registerOutputs’ in build.cc. For background, see Eelco Dolstra’s thesis at <http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf>. HTH! Ludo’.
