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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Cc: 18747@debbugs.gnu.org, nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl
Subject: bug#18747: [PATCH] Distinguish between “offloadability” and “substitutability”
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:14:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fqjmvgc.fsf__32350.0930135653$1435785327$gmane$org@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <559406C6.7040209@logicblox.com> (Eelco Dolstra's message of "Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:27:02 +0200")

Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> skribis:

> On 01/07/15 17:21, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> Nix commit 55586527 (June 2013) changed the semantics of
>> ‘preferLocalBuild’ from “avoid offloading this derivation” to “avoid
>> offloading *or substituting* this derivation” (see
>> <http://bugs.gnu.org/18747>.)
>> 
>> This patch introduces a new special key, ‘substitution’, to specify
>> whether a derivation should be substituted.  ‘preferLocalBuild’ is kept,
>> but its initial semantics is restored.
>
> Have you seen
> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/b64988bb3585478676585a0f0aecbcf4e11d4432,
> which essentially does the same thing?

I hadn’t, but that’s perfect–we’re on the same page.  ;-)

Thanks!

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-01 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-16 15:26 bug#18747: Fixed-output derivations are not substituted Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-16 15:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-16 15:46   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-01 15:21     ` bug#18747: [PATCH] Distinguish between “offloadability” and “substitutability” Ludovic Courtès
     [not found]     ` <87d20boqcw.fsf_-_@gnu.org>
2015-07-01 15:27       ` Eelco Dolstra
     [not found]       ` <559406C6.7040209@logicblox.com>
2015-07-01 21:14         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-07-02 22:33     ` bug#18747: Fixed-output derivations are not substituted Ludovic Courtès

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