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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#39387: Builds are *not* offloaded when using the "--keep-failed"
 or -K option.
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:54:38 +0100
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To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
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Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>> Indeed, it=E2=80=99s a feature!  :-)  It was discussed here:
>>
>>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38312
>>
>> There we discussed the possibility of printing a warning, which wasn=E2=
=80=99t
>> implemented.
>
> I see!
>
>> I=E2=80=99m closing in the meantime, but let me know what you think!
>
> OK!  I think I now see the technical difficulties in implementing a
> useful, offloaded interrupted build: the build artifacts, even if copied
> locally, would require syncing all the build time dependencies in order
> to allow sourcing the "environment-variables" script and be able to
> debug.  That's more the job of 'guix publish', not of 'guix offload'.

Right.  Ideally the build directory of an offloaded could be copied back
to the host of the caller, but that=E2=80=99s not implemented and a bit tri=
cky
maybe.

Before this change, my main use of =E2=80=98--no-build-hook=E2=80=99 would =
be together
with =E2=80=98-K=E2=80=99 for that reason.

Ludo=E2=80=99.