There are currently 4 different ways to run garbage collection using
lix:
- `nix-collect-garbage`
- `nix-store --gc`
- `nix store gc`
- (using the daemon directly)
As they were written all at different times, their output varies (and is
broken in some case). This unifies the display of informations in the
following ways:
- The list of paths in the results is always printed (in the nix3 cli it
is hidden unless `-v` is passed)
- The number of paths in the result set is always displayed
- The size of deleted paths is only shown when actually deleting things
(as it would have been 0B in any case)
Fixes#905
Change-Id: I40d9ec7c6d76795f6c6dd30df196d1e855bdb9db
Previously, paths not being deleted by gcDeleteSpecific would result in
(a) hardlinks not being cleaned up, and
(b) statistics not being reported correctly.
By throwing the error later, we fix both of these problems.
Change-Id: I8019f3e10d9f22e81ea87bb26b77f04ebc888a19
This adds a gcTryDeleteSpecific operation. This is similar to
gcDeleteSpecific, but will not fail if any of the given paths cannot
be deleted. Paths that could not be deleted are reported in the new
`kept` field of struct GCResults.
This also changes the behaviour of gcDeleteSpecific, such that it will
now continue deleting paths even if it fails to delete one along the
way, and only throw an error once deletion of all the given paths has
been attempted. This seems reasonable to me, because it makes its
behaviour somewhat less surprising -- previously, if some paths were
deletable and others weren't, the deletable ones would be deleted iff
they preceded the live ones in lexical sort order.
This also fixes a regression introduced in
8614cf1334, whereby nix-store --delete
failed to delete paths if they had any dependents -- even if none of
the dependents had GC roots.
The gcTryDeleteSpecific operation is surfaced via additional flags for
the `nix store delete` and `nix-store --delete` commands.
This makes custom garbage-collection logic a lot easier to implement
and experiment with:
- Paths known to be large can be thrown at `nix store delete` without
having to manually filter out those that are still reachable from a
root, e.g.
`nix store delete /nix/store/*mbrola-voices*`
- The --delete-closure option allows extending this to paths that are
not large themselves but do have a large closure size, e.g.
`nix store delete /nix/store/*nixos-system-gamingpc*`
Having an option for this is not strictly necessary, but convenient
because it doesn't require the user to add an extra `nix-store
-qR` (or `nix path-info -r`) into their command, nor to rewrite
their command to use `--stdin` if the closure ends up too large to
fit on a command line.
- Other heuristics like atime-based deletion can be applied more
easily, because `nix store delete` once again takes over the task of
working out which paths can't be deleted.
Change-Id: If345407fe7b11bdb3a8fdc04b0d56c32ab3d5928
I think it is bad for these reasons when `tests/` contains a mix of
functional and integration tests
- Concepts is harder to understand, the documentation makes a good
unit vs functional vs integration distinction, but when the
integration tests are just two subdirs within `tests/` this is not
clear.
- Source filtering in the `flake.nix` is more complex. We need to
filter out some of the dirs from `tests/`, rather than simply pick
the dirs we want and take all of them. This is a good sign the
structure of what we are trying to do is not matching the structure
of the files.
With this change we have a clean:
```shell-session
$ git show 'HEAD:tests'
tree HEAD:tests
functional/
installer/
nixos/
```
(cherry picked from commit 68c81c737571794f7246db53fb4774e94fcf4b7e)
Tom Hubrecht