Re: Avoid sending sources to offload servers

["Simen Endsjø" <contact@simendsjo.me>]

Yes, that's what I'm using, but it's not granular. The problem is things like `guix shell a b c`.
- a has a small source and long build time
- b has a large source and short build time
- c has a large output

a is no problem to offload, but b will cause a lot of unnecessary traffic, and I might want to run c locally to to avoid passing a lot of data.

I cannot tell --no-offload skip b and c, so If I have a single problematic package in my system, home or in a guix shell, I have to disable offloading for all packages.

On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, at 10:14, Hilton Chain wrote:
> Hi Simen,
> 
> On Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:57:26 +0800,
> Simen Endsjø wrote:
> >
> > I notice package sources are sent to offload servers. I have a build that has
> > 1.9GB sources, and results in a 4.7GB store item. I would have thought only the
> > definitions were sent to the build machine, and it would download the 1.9GB
> > file, but it seems this file is sent from my machine. I cannot see a way around
> > this, and it makes it difficult to combine this package with packages I wish to
> > offload as I cannot state certain packages shouldn't be offloaded.
> >
> > Not sure what I'm asking here, just wanted to point out an issue which causes
> > problems.
> 
> Guix commands that can spawn builds have a ‘--no-offload’ option, you can see
> more these options here[1].
> 
> 
> Thanks
> ---
> [1]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Common-Build-Options.html
>