Subject: Re: bug#39387: Builds are *not* offloaded when using the "--keep-failed" or -K option.

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:04:48 -0500

Hello Ludovic!

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> Still, it'd be nice to have an option to keep failed build on the
>> *remote* machines.  I don't think that's possible currently?
>
> In some cases it’s not even desirable because you could fill up /tmp
> without noticing.
>
> But note that another option is to do:
>
>   GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=ssh://remote.example.org guix build foo -K
>
> WDYT?
>
> Ludo’.

This fulfill my use case well and appears to be sufficiently documented
already.  We're gold!

Thank you,

Maxim