Subject: Re: bug#61554: guix refresh update missing option for no-offload

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:14:13 +0100

Hi Greg,

Greg Hogan <[email-masked]> skribis:

> `guix refresh --update <package>` attempts to compute the file hash on
> an offload machine, but provides no option to disable the offload as
> with `guix build --no-offload <package>`.

Could you share an example session showing the problem?

‘guix refresh -u’ is not supposed to build anything; it does download
straight to the store, via ‘download-to-store’ or
‘latest-repository-commit’, but that’s supposedly not subject to
offloading.

Thanks,
Ludo’.