Subject: Re: bug#44995: User options are not passed to the offload machine

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:50:10 -0400

severity 44995 important
thanks

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I noticed that:
>
> guix build something --no-substitutes
>
> when offloaded, will not honor the '--no-substitutes' argument and start
> fetching substitutes.
>
> Probably any user options are being ignored, I haven't checked yet.

This problem seems to be generalized to many options.  The --rounds=N
also is not honored, and so is the --cores=N one.

Raising severity.

Maxim