bug#19797: hydra: drvs deleted by GC, leads to aborted unrestartable builds

2015-02-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Here are three examples in evaluation 102697 (the latest) of packages that aborted because the garbage collector deleted their .drv files. These builds cannot be restarted. http://hydra.gnu.org/build/237336 http://hydra.gnu.org/build/237342 http://hydra.gnu.org/build/237338 In all three cas

bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD

2015-02-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, My 2c: In short +1! Thompson, David writes: > Currently, removing a user account from the users list in an OS config > does not remove the user account from a system when 'guix system > reconfigure' is run. I think that user accounts not specified in the > user accounts list should be i

bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD

2015-02-06 Thread Thompson, David
Currently, removing a user account from the users list in an OS config does not remove the user account from a system when 'guix system reconfigure' is run. I think that user accounts not specified in the user accounts list should be invalidated and that /etc/passwd and other files be fully rebuil