From: Fis Trivial <ybbs.daans@hotmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>,
"guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Subject: Re: Is it necessary to download the native inputs while installing packages?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:54:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MWHPR16MB006303E0441F05881D4DF68B92E80@MWHPR16MB0063.namprd16.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DEA98818-2EA9-4CDE-B213-A0893A2693BF@famulari.name>
Sorry about the mess in the original question.
>
> ‘Installing’ is too ambiguous to answer.
>
> - When *substituting* (installing a binary), native-inputs are not
> required and should never be downloaded.
This answers my question in mind, thanks. :)
>
> If any of the substitute servers *can* provide a binary, no
> native-inputs will be downloaded at all.
>
> Why are you adding ‘--fallback’?
>
As you explained, the substituting process failed.
Thanks for explaining things clearly. I will try to look into the source of
guix next time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-18 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-18 15:19 Is it necessary to download the native inputs while installing packages? Fis Trivial
2018-01-18 17:36 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-18 19:56 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-18 20:01 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-18 20:54 ` Fis Trivial [this message]
2018-01-19 13:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-20 0:13 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-20 10:40 ` Prevent native-inputs references ending up in the final binary Danny Milosavljevic
2018-01-20 15:47 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-21 22:37 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-21 22:47 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-01-24 14:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-26 0:56 ` Fis Trivial
2018-01-26 1:05 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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