GNU bug report logs - #36872
[PATCH 1/2] remote: Build derivations appropriate for the remote's architecture.

Previous Next

Full log

Message #23 received at 36872 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: zerodaysfordays <at> sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze)
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
Cc: 36872 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#36872] [PATCH 2/2] remote: Remove '--system' argument.
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 17:29:50 -0400

Hey Chris!

Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org> writes:

> I'm still wondering whether asking the remote machine what its
> architecture is won't turn out to be fragile in some way, though I'm not
> sure how to articulate how that would be yet.  It seems like a weird
> side effect to apply before doing the build.  (What if we want to build
> derivations when we don't actually have a machine up and running yet?
> Etc, etc.)

I agree that it isn't the purest solution, but my thinking is that
'remote-eval' is meant to be effectful anyway. As for the situation
where we build derivations for a machine that isn't running yet: I think
we can cross that bridge when we get to it -- 'guix deploy' doesn't have
the feature at the moment.

Regards,
Jakob

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.