[WIP] add --root-realisations to nix-instantiate#3086
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Neat! I think this would fix #719 |
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That's the intent, thanks for linking! I was planning to make appropriate changes to nixos-rebuild if this gets merged, potentially also rooting build time dependencies of the derivations evaluation depends on to improve the situation even further. |
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Any progress for this pr? I too think gc conflicts with IFD, especially for regions without good internet connections :/ |
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Currently using IFD (or similar mechanisms such as readFile from a derivation) together with garbage collection is a bad experience, since all derivations required for evaluation will have to be completely rebuilt after each run.
This PR adds an option
--root-realisationstonix-instantiatewhich mirrors--add-rootbut creates a GC root for derivations used for evaluation instead of those that are the result of the evaluation.There is some duplication of code with
--add-root, but abstracting over both is complicated by--add--rootusing successive numbering for results instead of putting them in a folder and it outputting paths to the GC roots instead of the store paths.At this point, especially since this is my first PR to Nix, and I'm not really familiar with C++, I'm mostly looking for general feedback on chance of this feature in the abstract being merged, whether to change
--add-rootbehavior (numbered outputs have always seemed strange to me since there's potentially garbage left over with successive invocations), and general direction of implementation.