question about cachix's garbage collection

[bbigras]

I'm using nix-build-uncached with cachix.

Since nix-build-uncached will skip building stuff already in my cachix cache, will cachix's garbage collection remove stuff I need since I didn't build/push them in the last runs?

[Mic92]

I would say so because I assume that cachix only account for GET requests and not HEAD requests. cc @domenkozar

[domenkozar]

That's a good question!

Cachix will set last accessed for nar GET request and not narinfo requests.

I might change that to narinfo to cover this use case, I don't see any downsides.

[bbigras]

I might change that to narinfo to cover this use case, I don't see any downsides.

That would be great. Unless I'm wrong it would fix a pretty big downside of using nix-build-uncached.

[Mic92]

Ok. There is nothing that nix-build-uncached can really fix here.