Note that we're currently not just waiting for Hydra, but also for the
delayed appearance on the official cache.nixos.org, which AFAIK can
take something like a day.

2014-06-05 22:50 GMT+02:00 Ertugrul Söylemez <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 21:01:59 +0100
> Shell Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> So is the argument that it should be possible to update the channel
>> with the new package definition before the binary cache has finished
>> building, thus letting people rebuild their systems locally if need
>> be? That seems reasonable.
>
> I think a nice solution would be to add build priorities to Hydra.  When a 
> security update is required quickly, then update the OpenSSL expression, 
> assign a high build priority to OpenSSL and the common server packages and 
> let Hydra do the building.  Most people will build on weaker machines, so I 
> think that "waiting for Hydra" is the way to go, even when you can't watch 
> the actual build process and thus feel that nothing is happening.
>
> All we need is to make sure that Hydra builds those quickly enough.
>
>
> Greets,
> Ertugrul
>
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