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Message #20 received at 19805 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, 19805 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Federico Beffa <beffa <at> ieee.org>
Subject: Re: bug#19805: Numpy failures
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:41:20 +0100

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> skribis:

> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Federico Beffa <beffa <at> ieee.org> skribis:
>>
>>> At some point we should fix the support for '#:substitutable?' on hydra
>>
>> That probably means that #:substitutable? should be propagated–i.e.,
>> that anything depending on ATLAS should not be substituted.
>
> As I just wrote in the "texlive failure" thread, setting
> #:substitutable? #f might make sense for texlive.  However, in that case
> we certainly would not want to propagate that setting.
>
> So, instead of propagating it, how about simply arranging to not send
> such packages to the build slaves, instead forcing them to build it
> locally on their own?

I think there are two properties of interest: “substitutability”, and
“offloadability”.

What do we want for ATLAS, for NumPy, and for TeX Live?

However, note that we can’t currently distinguish between these two
properties: <http://bugs.gnu.org/18747>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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