Hi Chris, On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 21:39, Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> wrote:
> The bordeaux build farm depends on computing the derivations on one > machine, then potentially building them on a different machine. > > Some of the build machines don't have a new enough guix-daemon that > understands builtin:git-download, so derivations that use this are > sometimes failing (e.g. [1]) Do you mean that the drv file is generated using a new daemon then this drv file is “offloaded” to another machine using an older daemon and thus fails to build it? > One potential approach to address this is somehow have the data service > indicate that it wants compatible derivations when computing them, > rather than to have guix do feature detection against the guix-daemon > that is being used at the point the derivations are being computed. Other solutions are: downgrade the daemon of one of the machine or update the daemon of other machines, no? Why would the latter not be possible? Cheers simon
