From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#39387: Builds are *not* offloaded when using the "--keep-failed"
 or -K option.
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:55:19 -0500
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hello!

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

> Hi Maxim,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> In the second case, the build is started on the local machine instead of
>> being dispatched to the offload machine.  Presumably, this is done so
>> that the files are available locally; but I'd prefer if it'd offload and
>> keep the files on the remote.  An alternative would be to copy the remot=
e build directory
>> locally after failure.
>
> 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'.

Maxim