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Subject: Re: Failures without internet connection
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 23:29:06 +0200
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To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Download of substituted binaries fails when one is offline. This is=20
> logical, but should guix then not gracefully fall back to compilation if=
=20
> the sources have already been downloaded?

I just added the =E2=80=98--fallback=E2=80=99 option for =E2=80=9Cguix buil=
d=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cguix package=E2=80=9D.
So by default you get an error, with a message from the daemon telling
you to try =E2=80=98--fallback=E2=80=99.  The difference is that now the op=
tion actually
exists.  ;-)

> In any case, catching the error and emitting an error message would=20
> probably be preferable to

Yes.  Fixed by commit cf5d2ca.

> In the past, I think I also ran into a similar problem even when using "--
> no-substitutes", as guix tried in vain to check for newer versions of gnu=
=20
> packages, but I cannot reproduce this problem now.

There should not be any problem with that now, but perhaps that was
fixed recently (maybe commit 91fe0e20c7da2b706a1ac0e7b75235b6c1e6ed0a).

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.