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Guix shouldn't request substitutes for profile derivations

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Message #13 received at 40381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40381: Guix shouldn't request substitutes for profile
 derivations
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 16:58:34 +0100

Hi Ludovic

> Can you show more precisely what you mean by pasting a command and its
> output?
> 
> With the recent changes in the implementation of grafts, what happens
> is usually this:
> 
>   $ guix build foo
>   updating the list of substitutes…
>   The following things will be built/downloaded:
>   …
> 
>   updating the list of substitutes…
>   The following things will be built/downloaded:
>   …
> 
> The second stage here typically includes profile.drv as well as
> grafts. All this is expected behavior.

I think that since profile.drv is always produced locally on the
machine, then it's unnecessary to update the list of substitutes
when it's on that second stage.

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