Re: prevent gc of texlive-...-texmf.tar.xz

2020-02-23 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 05:21:48PM +0100, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > 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

Re: prevent gc of texlive-...-texmf.tar.xz

2020-02-13 Thread Thomas Danckaert
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/5rnvmy02yazy8iwaa91kijbb

Re: prevent gc of texlive-...-texmf.tar.xz

2020-02-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 01:53:45PM +0100, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > Hi, > > I have limited space on my root file system, and therefore need to run 'guix > gc' regularly. One problem with that is that the texlive source package > (currently > /gnu/store/mj40l554qxw15acz0h018gk5c9mxzfgn-texlive-201

Re: prevent gc of texlive-...-texmf.tar.xz

2020-02-12 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 13:54, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > I have limited space on my root file system, and therefore need to > run 'guix gc' regularly. One problem with that is that the texlive > source package (currently > /gnu/store/mj40l554qxw15acz0h018gk5c9mxzfgn-texlive-20180414-texmf.ta

prevent gc of texlive-...-texmf.tar.xz

2020-02-12 Thread Thomas Danckaert
Hi, I have limited space on my root file system, and therefore need to run 'guix gc' regularly. One problem with that is that the texlive source package (currently /gnu/store/mj40l554qxw15acz0h018gk5c9mxzfgn-texlive-20180414-texmf.tar.xz) regularly gets deleted that way. When I upgrade afte