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bug#33737: do not attempt to build a package known to be broken
From: |
Björn Höfling |
Subject: |
bug#33737: do not attempt to build a package known to be broken |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:54:37 +0100 |
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:41:37 +0100
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
> The default use case is for users to have substitutes enabled and to
> fetch binaries from a build farm. The build farm tries to build all
> packages, but not all builds succeed. The daemon caches build
> failures.
>
> This information, however, is not available for users. The default
> behaviour of Guix is to attempt building the package locally. This is
> fine for packages that the build farm hasn’t attempted yet, but it is
> a waste of time when the build has already been attempted without
> success.
+1
Very good idea.
Björn
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