Subject: Re: bug#24168: Offloading builds does not honor --keep-failed

From: Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:47:49 +0300

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:04:01PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> ng0 <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > ng0 <[email-masked]> writes:
> >

Offloading still does not honor --keep-failed, but with
b3673e9917217fc27c743092e58e4eb33d0fdd16 there is at least a warning
about it now.

> >> This bug is to keep track of and not forget to add this feature to
> >> build offloading:
> >>
> >> When I offload builds to my build machine(s), I want to keep the results
> >> of failed builds to investigate the reason for failure.
> >>
> >> Currently this does not happen with offloading, we should fix this as
> >> its a nice feature to have.
> >
> > Adding to this: offloading does not support `guix build --keep-going`
> > either.
> >
> 
> Additionally with enabled offloading, guix pull has no option to build
> on its own when the build machines are down.
> 
> Being able to pass something like
> guix pull -- --no-build-hook
> would be good.
> 

Not sure when it was added, but 'guix pull --no-build-hook' does work
(now).

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