From: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 33737@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33737: do not attempt to build a package known to be broken
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:54:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181215195437.32313415@alma-ubu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efakyb26.fsf@elephly.net>
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:41:37 +0100
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> The default use case is for users to have substitutes enabled and to
> fetch binaries from a build farm. The build farm tries to build all
> packages, but not all builds succeed. The daemon caches build
> failures.
>
> This information, however, is not available for users. The default
> behaviour of Guix is to attempt building the package locally. This is
> fine for packages that the build farm hasn’t attempted yet, but it is
> a waste of time when the build has already been attempted without
> success.
+1
Very good idea.
Björn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-15 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-14 4:41 bug#33737: do not attempt to build a package known to be broken Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-15 18:54 ` Björn Höfling [this message]
2018-12-15 19:39 ` znavko
2018-12-16 20:14 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-12-16 21:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-18 10:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
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