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Re: Why is /gnu/store writable by the guixbuild group?


From: Andreas Enge
Subject: Re: Why is /gnu/store writable by the guixbuild group?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:59:14 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:45:17AM -0500, Steven Allen wrote:
> My only reservation with this is that directories in /gnu/store may or
> may not be "complete" (one could have half-completed builds).

I think that the atomic operation that validates a directory in /gnu/store
is registering it in the database. Before that, a build is not complete,
and also not used by the daemon (when creating profiles, deciding whether
a package still needs to be built, and so on).

Andreas




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