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1nix-pin-deps: GC-anchor a Nix build's dependencies
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4When a Nix build fails for lack of disk space and a `nix-collect-garbage`
5is needed to make disk space available, `nix-collect-garbage` will
6unhelpfully delete the successfully-built dependencies of the derivation
7that failed because they are are not yet gc-anchored, because the
8build failed.
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10This tool solves this problem:
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12 `nix-pin-deps /nix/store/...-foo.drv foo-deps`
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14will create gc-anchors in foo-deps/ for all of the dependencies of foo.drv
15that exist in the nix store, keeping partial build progress safe from
16`nix-collect-garbage`.