Hi! [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> This commit adds the ‘guix substitute-binary’ command, which is intended > for use by the daemon, not by normal users. So far, the daemon can > invoke it to know which substitutes are available on hydra.gnu.org. It > cannot actually download them yet, but that should be done Real Soon, so > stay tuned. :-) Commit fe0cff14f6c5facee4192529f5c7b7a972f185ca implements the long awaited (at least by me) feature. :-) That is, when you run ‘guix build foo’ or ‘guix package -i foo’ the daemon invokes ‘guix substitute-binary’ and asks it to fetch a pre-built binary from hydra.gnu.org, unless you pass ‘--no-substitutes’. I’m now using it to try to build stuff in the ‘core-updates’ branch without having to spend CPU time on it. Please report any problems you may find! Ludo’.
