Hi, Christopher Baines <[email protected]> skribis:
> 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]) > > 1: https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/build/10cc5622-6b1f-4f28-ad9a-41cf796d7a15 > > 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. Would it work for you if we added a keyword argument to ‘open-connection’ in (guix store) that would let you select which builtins to use? As in: (open-connection #:assume-available-builtin-builders '("download")) Ludo’.
