From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_?= =?UTF-8?Q?H=C3=B6fling?= Subject: bug#33737: do not attempt to build a package known to be broken Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:54:37 +0100 Message-ID: <20181215195437.32313415@alma-ubu> References: <87efakyb26.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/lGAIJe2/=NzAEl/PC4Xq+mY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYF5g-0005ft-Hl for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2018 13:55:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYF5a-0005VX-D2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2018 13:55:08 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:45372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYF5a-0005Us-1Q for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2018 13:55:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gYF5Z-0007G7-Sm for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2018 13:55:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87efakyb26.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: 33737@debbugs.gnu.org --Sig_/lGAIJe2/=NzAEl/PC4Xq+mY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:41:37 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus 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. >=20 > 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=E2=80=99t attempted yet, but i= t is > a waste of time when the build has already been attempted without > success. +1 Very good idea. Bj=C3=B6rn --Sig_/lGAIJe2/=NzAEl/PC4Xq+mY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlwVTe4ACgkQvyhstlk+X/0awQCcCWfhH+4An4y2ajHvKn1yGD46 kwMAnjwZwWwFEDdWtClwBVYrYlapHk5d =7tPv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/lGAIJe2/=NzAEl/PC4Xq+mY--