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| -rw-r--r-- | ops/pipelines/depot.nix | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ops/pipelines/depot.nix b/ops/pipelines/depot.nix index 878526e374..8d4f7d2757 100644 --- a/ops/pipelines/depot.nix +++ b/ops/pipelines/depot.nix @@ -36,10 +36,9 @@ let # at least one of its `outPath`s, so we need to discard the string context # if we don't want to build everything during pipeline construction. "nix-store --realise '${drvPath}'" - # However, Nix doesn't track references of store paths to derivations, so - # there's no guarantee that the derivation file is not garbage collected. - # To handle this case we fall back to an ordinary build if the derivation - # file is missing. + # Since we don't gcroot the derivation files, they may be deleted by the + # garbage collector. In that case we can reevaluate and build the attribute + # using nix-build. "|| (test ! -f '${drvPath}' && nix-build -E '${mkBuildExpr target}' --show-trace)" ]; label = ":nix: ${mkLabel target}"; |