* Put chroots in the Nix store. This ensures that we can create hard

  links to the inputs.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstore/gc.cc b/src/libstore/gc.cc
index 32cfbd022c61..552016584af1 100644
--- a/src/libstore/gc.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/gc.cc
@@ -565,6 +565,11 @@ static bool isLive(const Path & path, const PathSet & livePaths,
     if (hasSuffix(path, ".lock") && tempRoots.find(string(path, 0, path.size() - 5)) != tempRoots.end())
         return true;
 
+    /* Don't delete .chroot directories for derivations that are
+       currently being built. */
+    if (hasSuffix(path, ".chroot") && tempRoots.find(string(path, 0, path.size() - 7)) != tempRoots.end())
+        return true;
+
     return false;
 }