From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: updating list of substitutes
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:06:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151012060607.GA11012@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1wk8y7e.fsf@netris.org>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 01:15:01AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> The phrase "the substitute list" suggests a single, complete list of all
> available substitutes, but there is no such list. Instead, quoting
> Ludovic above:
>
> "When building a package FOO, Guix looks for substitutes for FOO
> and its prerequisites (those not already available locally.) It
> maintains in /var/guix/substitute/cache a cache of those lookups."
>
> So, if you build package BAR immediately after building FOO, a different
> set of substitutes is queried, and typically that involves more lookups
> (unless FOO runtime-depends on BAR).
>
> Does that make sense?
Right. So, why don't we have one list for every build? That would save
connecting to the one single server every time and be less fragile.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-12 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-21 6:45 updating list of substitutes Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 8:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-21 8:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 9:19 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-21 10:02 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 12:02 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-21 16:38 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-22 19:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-04-22 11:46 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-22 12:24 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-22 12:35 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-22 13:08 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-04-23 9:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-26 12:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-05-26 20:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-11 7:46 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-10-11 8:47 ` Efraim Flashner
2015-10-11 18:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-11 21:27 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-10-12 5:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-12 6:06 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2015-10-12 16:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-12 21:12 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-10-12 17:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-13 12:11 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-10-13 12:52 ` Andreas Enge
2015-10-13 14:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-18 16:15 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-11-18 16:28 ` Thompson, David
2015-11-18 16:30 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2015-11-18 18:29 ` Funding the build farm Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-18 18:38 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-11-18 20:55 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-11-18 21:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-18 21:26 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-11-22 10:53 ` Andreas Enge
2015-11-23 15:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-23 15:29 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-11-23 19:38 ` John Darrington
2015-11-24 12:05 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2015-11-24 14:54 ` Efraim Flashner
2015-11-24 15:12 ` John Darrington
2015-11-24 15:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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