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From: | Thomas Danckaert |
Subject: | Re: prevent gc of texlive-...-texmf.tar.xz |
Date: | Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:21:48 +0100 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/1.4.2 |
On 2020-02-12 21:45, Leo Famulari wrote:
The simplest way to make a gcroot is to symlink the store item into /var/guix/gcroots. In fact, I've had this exact symlink for a few years now: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 73 Aug 5 2017 texlive-20170524-texmf.tar.xz -> /gnu/store/5rnvmy02yazy8iwaa91kijbbqp8qmflz-texlive-20170524-texmf.tar.xz
Ah, thanks, that should do it! I wondered if I was the only one with this problem.
@Zimoun: texlive-texmf.tar.xz is only a build input of texlive, so it can be gc'ed even when texlive is installed in a profile. As far as I remember, updates to texlive often seem to require the original texmf tarball and apply patches to it (not sure how this works precisely -- somehow there are no substitutes for the patched/updated version of texlive-texmf?). Interesting that you saw 2 downloads of texlive-texmf (a 2.5GB nar file *and* the 2.5GB original tarball?). I don't understand why that happens (but even in this case, eliminating at least the tar.xz download saves a lot of time and bandwidth).
Thank you! Thomas
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